Bound to the Tyrant's Heart

Isolde works in public relations, takes every job that lands on her, and dies of exhaustion. She wakes as the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, married into the palace, in a body whose problems are not hers. Her plan is small and selfish: get the divorce, go home to her father's house, and do nothing for the rest of her life. Instead she gets tangled with Orville, the tyrant emperor, and the two of them end up bound life to life, so that whatever kills one kills the other. He has kept women away from him for years and has no intention of starting now, and she is a nuisance who talks back. She keeps being useful anyway, because she reads people and situations faster than his court does, and he keeps standing in front of her because his power is the one thing she cannot supply herself. Living in each other's company wears the hostility down. There is still the divorce she wants and the binding neither of them chose, and undoing the second one is work they have to do together.