Blair touches a crystal ball and watches her own death: her lover Pierce takes her name, her title, her fortune, and leaves her bleeding in a drainage ditch while Zachary, the man who actually loved her, arrives seconds too late to save her.
She wakes up back at the beginning with every memory intact. This time she dismantles Pierce in public, strips Lara of her invented pedigree, and lets Zachary stay close even though she pushed him away in her first life. But the crystal ball shows her something new: Zachary dying in her arms, smiling, telling her her survival was enough. Blair has to rewrite a fate that keeps demanding his life as the price of hers.
