They were never meant to be gods. But their love made them something far more dangerous. Ellas Valentin was forged to kill without question, a blade in her mother's hand, sharpened by the empire's cruelest lessons. Mercy is weakness. Hesitation is death. Until the boy she's sent to murder looks at her like he's been waiting lifetimes. Noct Seraph has died nine times. In every life, he finds her: the girl with the storm in her eyes and a blade at his throat. And every time, she forgets him. As Noct's memories bleed into Ellas's present, she begins to see flashes of a love older than time and a betrayal drenched in blood and ruin. When rebellion ignites in the kingdom's blood-soaked streets, Ellas faces an impossible choice: remain the crown's perfect weapon, or remember the boy who's died for her nine times over.