Midnight Strikes (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593567555)

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."--Gina Chen, New York Times bestselling author of Violet Made of Thorns

Seventeen-year-old Ana? just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom's glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation's most eligible (and pompous) bachelors--especially 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? 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 she's going to escape this nightmarish time loop, Ana? 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? to untangle these knots of deadly deceptions . . . if she can survive past midnight.

Author: Zeba Shahnaz
ISBN-10: 0593567552
ISBN-13: 9780593567555
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.88w x 1.44d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 01/23/2023
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2023
School Library Journal 04/01/2023 pg. 142