In this explosive fantasy debut, a provincial girl must work with an infuriatingly handsome prince to escape a nightmarish curse that forces them to relive the same night over and over.
"The time-loop fantasy you never knew you needed, where the fairytale ball is bloody and Cinderella is the Final Girl."тАФGina Chen, New York Times bestselling author of Violet Made of Thorns
Seventeen-year-old Ana├пs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdomтАЩs glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nationтАЩs most eligible (and pompous) bachelorsтАФespecially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo. But at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path. Including her.
The last thing Ana├пs sees is fire, smoke, chaos . . . and then she wakes up in her bedroom, hours before the ball. No one else remembers the deadly attack or believes her warnings of disaster.
Not even when it happens again. And again. And again.
If sheтАЩs going to escape this nightmarish time loop, Ana├пs must take control of her own fate and stop the attack before it happens. But the court's gilded surface belies a rotten core, full of restless nobles grabbing at power, discontented commoners itching for revolution, and even royals who secretly dream of taking the throne. It's up to Ana├пs to untangle these knots of deadly deceptions . . . if she can survive past midnight.