This Time, I'm the Author
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Last published Mon, Jul 14, 2025
"If I were Elena, I would never let it end like that."
That's what Laura Smith, a sharp-tongued Nigerian-American college student, said after binge-reading the tragic romance novel The Crimson Letter. The book wrecked her-its heroine, Elena Rowan, gave everything for love and still died betrayed, broken, and forgotten.
Frustrated and heartbroken, Laura whispers her final thought into the night:
"If I were her, I'd rewrite the story."
The next morning, she opens her eyes... and she's no longer Laura.
She's Elena.
Thrust into the fictional world of a romance gone wrong, Laura has one mission: survive-and flip the script. Armed with full knowledge of every betrayal, heartbreak, and deadly twist, she begins reshaping Elena's story from chapter one.
But the deeper she dives into Elena's life, the less fictional everything begins to feel.
Why is Sebastian Drake, the brooding billionaire who was supposed to ruin her, now trying to protect her? Why is the second male lead making moves way too early? And who's pulling the strings behind the scenes-trying to force Laura to stick to Elena's doomed fate?
In a world where the rules are written in ink and love comes with deadly conditions, Laura must decide:
Will she play the role she was given... or become the author of her own ending?
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