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THE LOST MARIONETTE
After a tragic accident, Jace awakens in a body that isn't his-reborn as Kyle, a fragile young man trapped in a cold, loveless marriage with Stefan Valenhardt, a powerful and emotionless elite. Freed from his obsessive ex-lover Darius, Jace wants nothing more than peace and anonymity in this new life. But as he settles into Kyle's world, he discovers haunting truths: Kyle's deep, unreciprocated love for Stefan, his hidden life as a painter, and the suffocating expectations of a life Jace never asked for.
But Stefan isn't blind to the changes. The Kyle who once clung to him is gone, replaced by a man who looks at him with indifference instead of yearning. Cold and controlled, Stefan begins to watch closely, calculating, disturbed by a shift he cannot explain. And behind the layers of silence, power, and possession, a question begins to burn: who is this man now wearing Kyle's skin-and why does his distance stir something Stefan tried long ago to kill?
In a world built on control, legacy, and masks, Jace must navigate a dangerous balance-between freedom and deception, survival and desire, and the lingering shadows of the men who want to possess him.