Annie is a soft-spoken, shy young woman working a terrible office job, but she gets another shot at a very different life when she wakes up in the body of Messalina, a beautiful empress married to the incredibly gorgeous Dragon Emperor. Annie-as-Messalina is on cloud nine, floating through a lavish anniversary banquet in her first hours as empress.
But disaster strikes in the middle of the night when one of the queen’s guards, Nico, stabs the Dragon Emperor to death; things only get worse when the assassin insists Messalina herself was in on the plan! Now, Annie-as-Messalina will have to fully embrace her new role as Dragon Empress to protect her throne—and her life. And even if she can’t yet trust Nico, that doesn’t mean she isn’t drawn to him…