Dying under a falling chandelier was bad enough. Waking up as a sleek black cat in the mansion of the Empire's most feared villain? That's a whole new level of catastrophe. Can I, a mere housecat, survive in a world where my owner is destined for execution? And why isn't the cruel Duke acting like the monster from the novel?

Trapped in a terrifying time loop, Dr. Aarohi Goenka relives the same horrific explosion at Birla Hospital again and again. Every attempt to escape death fails, only to reset the clock. As the loop shortens, she realizes her only hope is to break the cycle and save the man she was meant to marry, Dr. Abhimanyu Birla, and everyone else within the hospital walls. But how do you stop an unknown catastrophe when time is your enemy and the truth is hidden in plain sight?

"your hands are wet with the blood of an empire. you lick it off." - catastrophe "she wore a smile like a loaded gun" "she was a queen with neither crown nor kingdom, the most powerful piece of the board with no moves left to make, so she overturned the table." "mama bore a girl with gun for a mouth. teeth dripping lead, and lips bleeding red. lashes curled for war, onyx armour for my eyes. tongue waxing lyrical of both beauty and battle cries." "be careful with that girl there's a fire burning behind her eyes. she makes kingdoms fall and monsters wish they'd never been born" "we were both created in chaos, we were both born to destroy. you were like death, and i was like war. and where we collided, darling, i loved you." - born disasters "i am the daughter of a KING who forgot my name" - L.L. Tyrell "if i cannot bend HEAVEN i will raise HELL" "she wears strength & darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell" - Nikita Gill "in a fight, they're lethal. around each other, they melt."