Celeste Ashford wakes up to glowing text floating in her vision—reader comments calling her a "disposable side character" in someone else's love story, destined to freeze to death in a gutter while the real heroine claims her husband's heart. Her arranged marriage to Julian Cross, a man who won't look at her or touch her, was supposed to save her father's company, but the comments reveal a darker truth: she's been positioned as a scapegoat for a corporate conspiracy that's already destroyed others before her. When Julian's mistress tells Celeste that her own husband called her "manageable," she stops trying to win his love and starts digging into the integration deal that's designed to erase her completely. Locked in a psychiatric ward by her own father and discredited as delusional, Celeste must prove she's not paranoid—she's the only one who sees the pattern. In a world where she can see the story being written around her, Celeste refuses to accept the ending they've already planned.