Dragged into the pages of a novel as a mere background extra, she swears to keep her distance from the main characters. But when her disgraced family abandons her with nothing, she ends up accepting a six-month temp position at the estate of the story’s blind duke. The job is safe, the mansion comfortable… right up until he calmly turns “you can stay here” into “then we should get engaged.”

Now, with a contract engagement on the table, she has to decide: is this just a convenient way to survive—or the beginning of a plot twist she never saw coming?