When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy and naked in a gutter, she recognizes Kair Toren. It’s a city she knows intimately from the pages of a famously unfinished fantasy series. And what are her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic and mayhem? Her encyclopaedic knowledge of the books and their characters' fates. She quickly discovers she can’t be killed (though many will try), but the same can’t be said for those she’s learning to love – a motley band including a former lady’s maid, an assassin and a dangerously appealing soldier. Soon, instead of trying to return home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes – and attentions – of duelling princes, dukes and villains. All this while trying to save them and their kingdom from the ending she’s seen on the page: a cataclysmic war.