The Cinnabar Echo
By @john1208
In her first life, Vlasta Kopřiva was a brilliant but reckless apothecary who watched her younger sister, Milena, succumb to the Whispering Blight, a slow-acting poison with no known cure. Crushed by guilt and eventually framed for treason, Vlasta died with a single wish: to save her sister. Now, she's awake in her own body ten years prior, the day Milena was first afflicted. With the knowledge of the future, she is determined to unmask the poisoner and synthesize the antidote she discovered too late. Her shameless methods and uncanny foresight, however, draw the unwanted attention of Duke Vojtěch Hrubý, the cold and calculating man whose investigation sealed her fate. As she forges a dangerous alliance with him, she realizes she isn't the only one reliving the past. Another regressor with a hidden agenda seems determined to ensure history repeats itself, twisting her every success into a new catastrophe. Can Vlasta save Milena when her second chance might be a rigged game designed by someone else entirely?
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