The Thirteenth Reset

Kane Rook’s blade is at Elara Vale’s throat when the city’s midnight bells begin to scream. He kills her—and three days later, she wakes with a dead man’s black transit token clenched in her hand. Every three days, the entire city is erased, and Elara is the only one who remembers every death. Framed as the disaster’s cause, she must chase clues through underground spirit rails while the cold investigator hunting her remembers only lethal fragments—and finds a new way to kill her in every reset. He should be her enemy, but on the twelfth night, after cornering her in the dark, Kane kisses her before pulling the trigger. Now the thirteenth reset has begun, and Elara learns the disaster isn’t destroying the city—it’s choosing the one person allowed to survive; will she trust the man destined to kill her, or sacrifice him to save everyone else?