Death finds Laila in the marketplace. Death finds her in the palace gardens. Death finds her in a locked room three kingdoms away. The blade changes—poison one loop, a dagger the next, bare hands in the iteration after—but the assassin never does. He tracks her across every rewind, every desperate attempt to unmake the timeline where her father slaughtered his family. Turning back time was supposed to be her escape. Instead it just gives her new ways to die.

When running fails for the sixth time, Laila tries something unhinged: she'll raise him herself. If she can't outrun her killer, maybe she can coddle the grudge out of him before he picks up his first sword. Survival through aggressive parenting wasn't in any revenge-evasion manual, but here she is, the villain's daughter playing nursemaid to the boy who'll grow up to end her. Except he's stubborn in ways that make no sense, resistant to every attempt to rewrite his vengeance, and she's running out of lifetimes to figure out why he won't just let her fix this.

Also known as: Even if the Villain's Daughter Regresses, As Regressões da Filha do Vilão.