THE DEBT SHE PAID IN SMILES

“Ira's second life came with a contract, a countdown, and a body count she'd have to arrange herself. She fell out of a tree chasing a cat and woke up in another era entirely, in someone else's body, with a smug system informing her that going home again requires exactly one thing: marry the three most powerful men in the empire, make them love her - and then get them to kill her. Ira laughed the first time she heard it. It's not funny anymore. Two years later, she has a scholar who clawed his way from starving to the most dangerous mind in the capital, and loves her like she's the only rare thing he's ever been allowed to keep. A chancellor who runs the empire from the shadows and has never once, in his life, lost control of anything - except her. A general who doesn't waste words on love because he's never needed to; but with this nation, all he wants is her. All three are putting a knife against her throat, but strangely, what she has is a smile as they take her life”