She Dies at Dawn

She has eleven lives. He might cost her every one.

Whipsmart has spent a lot of time dying. She is the last of the Deathless, a people with eleven lives who were exterminated by the emperor years ago. Her family gone, she has grown up surviving as a thief. When Whip wakes up on her sixth life with a blade in her hand and the emperor dead next to her, she’s sentenced to hang—even though she’s fairly sure she didn’t kill him.

The emperor’s sixth son, the dashing, layabout Leto, is fighting his own battles. With three of his brothers having been killed recently, and someone trying to frame him for the murders, he fears he might be the next victim. Though Leto suspects Whip couldn't have killed his father, with her being such a perfect scapegoat, he calls for her death anyway.

But when Whip turns up alive after her hanging, she and Leto form an uneasy alliance to find the murderer and stop a coup. So long as neither betrays the other first. While the death toll mounts and Whip’s remaining lives dwindle, sparks unexpectedly fly between the two former enemies. As their feelings become undeniable, they must uncover who killed the emperor before they wind up dead themselves.