They Let Me Die. This Time I Leave First.

Betrayed by the familiars she trusted and consumed by her own magic, Nessa died once already — and remembers every second of it. Reborn into House Ashford under the watch of her formidable mother Rowena, she severs her old bonds with Cinder and Silas and gambles everything on a stranger: Kael, a man with golden eyes, black scales, and a taste for human flesh. Beneath his human shape hides a dragon of the old world, a beast who has never bowed to anyone — until her. He promises her three months of life. But when Nessa's reborn power begins unraveling her from within, Kael pays the price no dragon should ever pay: he gives her his heart, sealing their lives together in a bond where one fall means both fall.Haunted by the betrayals of her first life, Nessa follows Kael through a fog-shrouded town where time itself is being stolen — forty years of the same endless day, held prisoner by a grieving woman named Mara who waits forever for the healer she lost. To free the town and save herself, Nessa must face the dragon she chose and the woman she is becoming.But the deepest secret waits in the mist: how much of her fate was written before her first death — and who will survive the rewriting?