Condemned for Wanting Both

They say you can't walk into Mordor. She never meant to walk into the story at all.

When a tragic accident sends English teacher and Faramir-enthusiast Veronica tumbling from her world into the heart of Middle-earth, she is given a new name-Nicariel-and a dangerous secret to keep. Armed with foreknowledge of the War of the Ring and a scholar's love for the gentle Captain Faramir, she believes she knows how this tale is meant to unfold.

Her plans shatter at the Council of Elrond. To steer fate away from disaster, she publicly exposes the hidden temptation of Boromir, the brash heir to the Steward, branding herself as both seer and adversary. Forced together on the Fellowship's desperate quest, Nicariel and Boromir clash in a relentless battle of wills-each a living insult to the other's deepest convictions.

But the road to Mordor has a way of stripping away certainties. As Nicariel is drawn into the brutal, beautiful reality of a world she once only read about, the line between fiction and flesh begins to blur. The noble Faramir is her intellectual match, a dream made real. Yet it is the proud, flawed, and infuriatingly compelling Boromir who challenges her at every turn, forcing her to question the very narrative she swore to protect.

Condemned for Wanting Both is a sweeping, emotionally charged fantasy about destiny, desire, and the cost of rewriting a legend. Torn between the story she knows and the men who live it, Nicariel must decide: Is her heart bound to the tale she loves, or to the one she's living?

The fate of Middle-earth is written.
The fate of her heart is not.