Lady Violet has perished four times before reaching her twentieth year, executed through fire, the axe, the noose, and the dagger at the hands of her duplicitous stepsister Seraphina and treacherous fiancé Dodolo. Reawakening for her fifth life, she abandons all desire to play the virtuous victim. Casting off her silk wedding dress in favor of leather riding gear, she charges into her stepmother's wedding banquet on horseback.
Declaring herself a villainess who will show no mercy, Violet sets out to systematically dismantle the conspirators who orchestrated her past executions. She accepts a dangerous secret alliance with Malloris, a mysterious aristocrat hiding his scarred features behind a silver mask. Violet must outmaneuver fate and court politics to ensure this fifth lifetime becomes her triumph rather than her grave.
