Deadlock Mercenary

Ivy Chen has a pistol pressed to Cole Ash’s throat—and somehow, she knows his name. Cole knows she’ll die at sunset on the fourth day. He’s watched it happen eighty-two times. Every death sends him back to the mission’s beginning, armed with perfect knowledge of every bullet, betrayal, and doomed teammate. But this time, the battlefield is changing—and Ivy is starting to remember flashes of a man she has never met. He was hired to protect her, yet the closer he gets, the more the mysterious contract erases his memories and twists the rules. Now Ivy’s death is coming earlier, the map is lying, and someone called the Watcher is studying every loop. To save the woman who will never remember loving him, must Cole sacrifice his final life—or destroy the only reality where she can survive?