Reaper's Hand: Midnight Contract

The first card turns black in Cole Mercer’s hand—and something breathing crawls up behind his neck. When the lights return, the loser is dead, his sister’s soul-debt is doubled, and a devil is waiting for Cole to pay. The broke ex-cop has one way out: win at Ashen City’s midnight tables with a cursed deck where every victory buys time, but every loss steals his memories, years, or pieces of his soul. His only ally is Eve Vane, a ruthless contract broker who owns half his soul-share—and whose smile makes betrayal feel dangerously close to desire. But the Council’s elegant executioner, Silas Quinn, has already marked Cole as a rogue Pact Holder. Hand over the deck at the Hell-Table in seven days—or gamble everything Cole has left, including the memory of the sister he swore to save?