Opening a cursed artifact tears open more than a doorway—it opens a one-way plunge into Hell itself. Down in the inferno, survival isn't negotiated with stutters or polite curtsy. It's earned in blood, in scars, in the slow forging of a warrior who learns to bite back at demons. Years burn away until the timid spinster who fell is gone, replaced by someone fierce enough to stand on the edge of total conquest.

But Hell spits Alicia back to the beginning. She wakes in her old life, her old body, her old betrothal—still bound to Grand Duke Reikart Tessen, the man whispered about as the "Grand Duchess Serial Killer." Six brides before her met their end. This time, though, she's not the trembling girl who stumbled into the abyss. Armed with a second chance and hellfire in her veins, she's done waiting for fate to choose her. She'll pursue him first, claim her destiny on her own terms. Can a warrior dragged through damnation win the heart of a man who kills duchesses?