DISCLAIMER: if violent or distressing content, angst, and suffering make you uncomfortable, please do not read! while this fic does not consist of JUST that, it has quite a lot of it. Lillian Montgomery was once the pinnacle of beauty in Staten Island. Graceful, small in stature, with a face so perfectly symmetrical it seemed sculpted by the gods. She was meant for a bright future, a life of promise. But in 1945, at just eighteen years old, that future was stolen. At the order of Hydra, she was taken by the Winter Solider, marking the beginning of a nightmare that would stretch across 70 years. Hydra made her into a masterpiece of destruction. A living firestorm, a whisper of death.Their newest weapon, perfected through agonizing experiments that granted her the ability to incinerate anything with a single thought. When she wasn't reducing enemies to ash, she was a possession, a plaything meant to serve the only men who truly owned her: the very people who stole her life away. Now, in 2015, on a mission to eliminate Nick Fury, chaos erupts. For the first time in decades, Lillian is outside of Hydra's grasp. Torn between a new life and the only existence she's ever known, she faces an impossible choice; stay in the light, or return to the only man who has ever made her feel real... even if he was her cage. COVER ART: found on pinterest. it is NOT mine, but no artist was attached. if you are the artist, please contact me and i'd be happy to change the cover or credit you! 💞

They conquered the ice. But the flames are coming. In the hidden sanctuary of Wakanda, Elena must help James reclaim the pieces of himself that HYDRA tried to erase - even as her own blood ties threaten to destroy everything they have fought for. Her father's legacy casts a long, merciless shadow. Revenge burns in her chest. Love, guilt, and survival pull her in opposite directions. To save him, she must confront everything she was born from. To save herself, she may have to lose him. ‼️: This book is the second part of the Coldfire Series. If you haven't yet, please read Frostbite, the first part of the series.