The Duke's Shadow Wife

She was the perfect daughter.

Elegant. Talented. Smiling at all the right moments.

Behind the polished performances and carefully curated life, Eleanor has long since stopped feeling anything at all. Living was simply something she continued to do out of habit. The only warmth she knows comes from the deep resonance of her cello and the quiet comfort of late night romance stories she never quite believes in.

Then she dies.

When she opens her eyes again, Eleanor is no longer herself, but the tragic Duchess from the very novel she had been reading. Her cold, war bound husband, Duke Lucien Valmont, is still alive. And according to the story she remembers far too well, he only has three years left to live.

She does not plan to change the future.

She does not plan to save him.

But quiet observations have a way of becoming dangerous, and indifference has a way of cracking in the presence of someone who understands silence a little too well.

In a gilded estate where nothing is as simple as it seems, one emotionally hollow girl may discover her new purpose in life.