Tea Time and Cookies: A (not so) Quiet Transformation

Remembering mana was easy. Remembering herself? Not so much.

She'd gone to Suddernjun to escape Ceapstow's political games and recover from an attack that nearly cost her everything.

Instead, she rebuilt a country's fading mana network, survived a romance she never expected, and discovered that even happy endings leave scars.

Then she woke up in a moving wagon.
No memories.
No name.
Only instincts her body refused to forget.

The tall, dark-haired noble who found her insists they're travelling east.
His presence pulls at something she can't remember...
...and isn't sure she wants to deny.

As fragments of her past return, so do uncomfortable truths.
Someone betrayed her.
Someone has been shaping her future from the shadows.

And while she struggles to remember who she used to be...
...the world has already decided who she must become.

With an epidemic threatening the kingdom that had already tried to abduct her-and an ancient demon gate beginning to awaken-Dee will have to answer a question no amount of magic can solve.

Does she keep letting others decide her future...
...or become the one making the choices?

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