Ninth Loop Blade

**STAGE 1: THE HOOK** He wakes with a blade at his throat and her secret name already on his lips—the one she's never told a living soul. She should kill him for that alone. **STAGE 2: THE CONFLICT & TENSION** Rhys Kaldane has died nine times in nine loops, and this time he's brought back a ledger only he can see—every name, every death date, including hers. Sona, the youngest blade of the Nine Bells, killed for him in the last loop. She doesn't remember. He remembers everything. To stop the massacre that ends them all, he needs her to trust him, needs to save three women marked for sacrifice, needs to keep a commander from betraying them before he even thinks to do it. But the ledger just started writing new names. His own. And this loop's enemy seems to be counting rounds too. **STAGE 3: THE CLIFFHANGER** She asks how he knows her name—all he sees is the exact night she's going to die, unless he can make her believe a stranger who shouldn't exist.