Nine Minutes to Midnight

The gun fires into Mara Quinn’s chest—and nine minutes later, she wakes with the same muzzle pressed against her skin. The dead courier’s phone is still in her hand, while the cold fixer sent to retrieve it watches her like he’s seen her die before. Every reset forces Mara and Cade Mercer into a lethal alliance, even as neither can decide whether to trust the other—or pull the trigger first. With killers closing in and a vicious phone AI feeding them fractured clues, Cade’s touch becomes as dangerous as his secrets. Then the phone opens a buried file marked: ANCHOR RECOVERED—and shows Mara’s face. Will Mara trust the man who may have lost her in another life, or let the next nine-minute reset erase them both?