Before My Enemy Dies Again

At 8:14 p.m., the eighth bell chokes—and the courtyard explodes around Kael Ashford for the third time. He wakes at dawn with blood in his mouth, his mother’s warning in his head, and one month to uncover why death keeps resetting him. At Vaelthorne Collegium, Kael is only a scholarship bastard, while his ruthless noble half-brother Dorian holds the power, the secrets, and far more looped memories than he admits. Every investigation reveals a darker truth: Kael’s mother traded a share of her soul for his admission, and the academy is harvesting the repeated lives of its students to feed a tear in time. Forced into an alliance with the brother he was raised to hate, Kael must decide whether trust is another weapon—or the only way to survive. When the final midnight bell begins to ring, will Kael sacrifice everyone else to escape the loop, or synchronize his soul with theirs and risk being swallowed by the rift forever?