"Curiosity killed the cat." The human saying always intrigued Kai. As a Void, an immortal creature who feeds on human sorrow, he never understood how curiosity could lead to doom. Until he became too curious about a human. Leila is a doctor drowning in grief and the burden of failing the people she cannot save. She was never supposed to matter. But after breaking an immortal law because of her, Kai loses the freedom he has known for centuries and begins to understand that perhaps curiosity really could get someone killed. Desperate for a way out, Kai strikes a deal with Iztheria's most wanted criminal: the so-called red-headed freak who bargains in hearts, secrets, and games. Nothing in her circus is ever free. There is always a price to pay... or a game to play. But in Iztheria, the law never sleeps, nor those who mend it-the Judges. In a world where history is rewritten and rebellion is punished, four lives collide in a gamble that will force them to confront their pasts, nature, and their fates. The gamble has begun. And the rules are no longer sacred. (I will be self publishing The immortal gamble once I'm done with it so I'll only post the first 4 chapters here as a teaser🥰)