In every lifetime.

Time has an odd sense of humor, and unfortunately for him, Carlos Carlacci the punchline. Every time his knee gives way, so does reality, tossing him headfirst into a new era. One moment he's waltzing through a Renaissance ballroom; the next, he's dodging tomatoes in a medieval tavern. To survive, he performs; entertaining at all costs to keep the crowd from turning hostile.

But no matter the century, there's one constant: her. The woman who killed him in his first life, her face a cruel joke played by the timeline itself. Always watching. Always haunting. He can't tell if she's his punishment, his stalker, or just another way the universe likes to mess with him.

When he's flung back to where it all began, he faces her not as a phantom, but as the real, flesh-and-blood woman who was the first to end his life. This time, there are no stage lights or cheering crowds-just the undeniable pull of their shared fate. As the threads of time tighten around them, he's left with a grimly amusing realization: he might be stuck in the one place he never wanted to return to... with the one person who might actually make him want to stay.

But time is fragile, and connection a dangerous game. How many lifetimes will he have to go through, and how far will he go to rewrite his fate?