He spent ninety-nine lives chasing the same man. In his hundredth, he finally stopped. Julian Mercer remembers every life he has ever lived. Ninety-nine beginnings. Ninety-nine endings. Different names, different families, different centuries-and always the same soul waiting for him somewhere in the world. His task should have been simple: Find him. Make him fall in love. Break the cycle. Except Julian has failed every single time. For ninety-nine lives, he has watched the man he loves choose someone else. He has been the loyal friend, the forgotten companion, the person standing quietly at the edge of someone else's love story. And every time that man dies, Julian's life begins again. By his hundredth reincarnation, Julian is exhausted. So he makes a decision. No more chasing. No more waiting. No more falling in love. If fate insists on giving Julian a hundredth life, then this time, he's going to live it for himself.