The last thing Evelyn Crane remembered was the cold ? the icy river, the dark sky, and her best friend's face watching from the bridge above as she drowned.
She wakes up five years in the past, gasping in her childhood bedroom on the morning of her eighteenth birthday. Her father is alive. Her enemy is downstairs laughing. And Evelyn Crane is done being soft.
In her first life, she was generous to a fault ? she handed Sophia Voss everything: connections, business secrets, her family's trust, even her fiancé. Sophia took it all and then took Evelyn's life to make sure she could never take it back.
This time, Evelyn plays a different game. No outbursts. No confrontations. Just a slow, surgical dismantling of every person who betrayed her ? one perfectly timed move at a time.
She will save her father. She will rebuild her empire. She will let them all believe they've already won.
And then she will take everything.
They called her too soft to survive. She came back to prove them right ? and then wrong, in the most devastating way possible.
