THE LATE DUKE’S WILL

THE LATE DUKE’S WILL

Genre: Transmigration – Comeuppance 

I woke up in the body of Duchess Isabelle von Hartmann, moments after her fiancé had just announced their broken engagement in the great hall, in front of the entire family council.

Her memories told me everything: for ten years she had endured a man who cheated with her own cousin, and a guardian uncle who had been quietly bleeding her estate dry — all because she believed she wasn’t capable enough to stand on her own.

I was different.

In my previous life, I had been a chief financial officer in London.

When the council prepared to vote away my inheritance and hand it to that “sweet, obedient” cousin of mine, I simply smiled, and laid a stack of papers on the table — papers that, in ten years, no one had ever imagined she was clear-headed enough to go looking for