Melanie B

For a thousand years, no fox had ever reached the legendary Ninth Tail.
Kaien Ashwyn was destined to become the first.
At only twenty-two years old, the greatest genius of the Celestial Fox Clan stood before the Ascension Ceremony, one step away from becoming the next Fox Sovereign. Instead of ascending, he was branded a traitor for conspiring with the Fox Hunters.
His Clan Leader, Lord Orion, condemned him.
His beloved master, Vaelor, testified against him.
His sworn brother, Rowan Ashford, drove the killing blow through his heart.
Kaien died without ever learning why the three people he trusted most had betrayed him.
When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself five years in the past, back at Fox Academy as a seventeen-year-old Seven-Tailed Fox.
This time, he will not make the same mistakes.
He hides the truth about his rebirth, distances himself from Rowan, and begins searching for the conspiracy that will one day destroy his life but the past refuses to stay the same.
Lyra Vesperis of the Moon Fox Clan, the girl who witnessed his execution in the previous timeline, has also returned with memories of the future. Once convinced Kaien was a traitor, she later watched the Fox Sovereignty collapse beneath a far greater conspiracy. Now she no longer knows whether to hunt him... or help him.
As mysterious deaths plague Fox Academy, students begin turning up with their cultivation stolen, ancient records are altered and an invisible hand pushes the Fox Sovereignty toward the very future Kaien is trying to prevent.
Caught between betrayal, revenge, forbidden truths, and a growing bond, Kaien must uncover the identity of the true mastermind before history repeats itself.
Because this time...
if he fails,
it won't just be his execution but the extinction of the entire Fox Sovereignty.