"I was meant to leave with Bonnie and Damon. Not stay behind. Not get trapped in 1994. Not with him." The Ascendant failed her, and he appears like a shadow, taunting. Aurora Bennet-Tull wakes up in the Prison World alone... except she isn't. Kai Parker is already there. Dangerous. Charming. Unforgivable. And very, very bored. Days blur into weeks. Magic gets messy. Lines get worse. And hatred starts turning into something neither of them can name without it sounding like a mistake. Because the Prison World doesn't just trap bodies. It rewrites people. And Aurora is starting to wonder if she was ever meant to escape him at all. KaiParkerxFem!oc