Ninth Loop Blade

A sword pressed against Rhys Kaldane’s throat—and he whispers the secret name Sona has never told anyone. Her blade should kill him, but he remembers the last time she died protecting him. This is his ninth life, and Thornwatch Keep will fall again in three days. With a death ledger only he can read, Rhys must turn the woman who hates him into an ally, stop a commander destined to betray them, and save three bell-keepers marked for sacrifice—including the one who may already know the truth about his endless deaths. But the ledger has begun writing Rhys’s own name—and somewhere in the doomed keep, an enemy is counting the loops too. Will Sona trust the man who knows how she dies, or drive her sword through his heart before the massacre begins?