PAPER CROWN

A crown made of paper still looks like a crown, until the rain comes.

Park Roseanne has spent her entire life beneath a name powerful enough to open doors-and dangerous enough to close them.

At thirty-four, she becomes the youngest mayor in Incheon's history. To the public, she is everything a politician should be: composed, capable, and untouchable.

Kim Jennie isn't convinced.

A journalist at Hanguk Sisa, Jennie has spent months questioning the mayor's suspiciously perfect rise. The more she looks, the more she finds herself drawn into a world of political influence, family secrets, and carefully buried truths.

But Roseanne is not as easy to read as Jennie expected.

And the closer Jennie gets, the harder it becomes to tell where the investigation ends-and where something far more dangerous begins.

Then a corruption scandal threatens to bring Roseanne's carefully built world crashing down.

In a city where everyone has something to hide, the truth may be the most dangerous thing of all.

And sometimes, the person you were meant to expose becomes the person you can't afford to lose.