Countess Sherazade is attending a ballroom when memories of another life return to her. She realizes that the world around her is the setting of a romance novel she once read—and that she herself is the kindhearted heroine fated to catch the prince’s attention. There is only one problem: Sherazade remembers how badly that story ends for her. Determined not to repeat a future that leaves her devastated, she decides to avoid the prince and the marriage route everyone expects, even if escaping the plot means rewriting her life one choice at a time.