diff --git a/src/api/src/create_book.py b/src/api/src/create_book.py
index ab773ae..40e4905 100644
--- a/src/api/src/create_book.py
+++ b/src/api/src/create_book.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from ebooklib import epub
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from pydantic import model_validator, field_validator
 from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings
-from aiohttp import ClientResponseError, ClientSession
+from aiohttp import ClientResponseError
 from aiohttp_client_cache.session import CachedSession
 from aiohttp_client_cache import FileBackend, RedisBackend
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ async def wp_get_cookies(username: str, password: str) -> dict:
         dict: Authorization cookies.
     """
     with start_action(action_type="api_fetch_cookies"):
-        async with ClientSession(headers=headers) as session:
+        async with CachedSession(headers=headers, cache=None) as session:
             async with session.post(
                 "https://www.wattpad.com/auth/login?nextUrl=%2F&_data=routes%2Fauth.login",
                 data={
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ def set_metadata(book, data):
     )
 
 
-async def set_cover(book, data, cookies: Optional[dict] = None):
+async def set_cover(book, data):
     book.set_cover("cover.jpg", await fetch_cover(data["cover"]))
     chapter = epub.EpubHtml(
         file_name="titlepage.xhtml",  # Standard for cover page
@@ -272,11 +272,9 @@ async def add_chapters(
         if download_images:
             soup = BeautifulSoup(content, "lxml")
 
-            async with (
-                CachedSession(headers=headers, cache=cache)
-                if not cookies
-                else ClientSession(headers=headers, cookies=cookies)
-            ) as session:  # Don't cache requests with Cookies.
+            async with CachedSession(
+                headers=headers, cache=None
+            ) as session:  # Don't cache requests for images.
                 for idx, image in enumerate(soup.find_all("img")):
                     if not image["src"]:
                         continue
diff --git a/src/api/src/main.py b/src/api/src/main.py
index 60eaa9e..e8f1c3b 100644
--- a/src/api/src/main.py
+++ b/src/api/src/main.py
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ async def handle_download(
         metadata = await retrieve_story(story_id, cookies)
         set_metadata(book, metadata)
 
-        await set_cover(book, metadata, cookies=cookies)
+        await set_cover(book, metadata)
 
         async for title in add_chapters(
             book, metadata, download_images=download_images, cookies=cookies
diff --git a/src/api/src/test_break.py b/src/api/src/test_break.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c77f8c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/api/src/test_break.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import asyncio
+from datetime import datetime
+import aiohttp
+from rich import print
+
+
+PORT: int = 8086
+DOWNLOAD_URL = (
+    f"http://localhost:{PORT}/download/314175600?om=1&download_images=true&mode=story"
+)
+
+
+async def fetch(task_id: int, session: aiohttp.ClientSession):
+    print("started", task_id)
+
+    start = datetime.now()
+    async with session.get(DOWNLOAD_URL) as response:
+        print(task_id, response.status)
+    end = datetime.now()
+
+    print("time taken", (end - start).total_seconds())
+
+
+async def main():
+    session = aiohttp.ClientSession()
+
+    await asyncio.gather(*[fetch(i, session) for i in range(30)])
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    asyncio.run(main())