Transplanted to the 1980s, an unrelated ward is forced to wed a widower in her adoptive sister's place.
Julie Stein falls asleep in her own era and awakens decades earlier, discovering she occupies the body of a wealthy family's cast-off ward who shares no blood with them. The household treats her as disposable currency, arranging for her to stand in for their legitimate daughter at the altar. Her intended husband is an older widower already raising two children, a stranger she never consented to marry. Stranded in a past that isn't hers, she must navigate a substitute marriage built on deception and familial betrayal.
Motifs
Time displacement into past
Substitute bride arrangement
Unwanted marital duty
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Anyone intrigued by fish-out-of-water tension layered onto a coerced marriage in a retro setting will find this premise sharp.
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