CROSSFIRE: ALEX BLACK The Beast at Midnight Series No one knows if Alex Black is her real name. They only know the legend, the billionaire philanthropist polished by power, protected by Washington, built on secrets so classified even the White House denies she exists. Forged in the dark. Engineered inside Project Omega-966 to feel nothing, to want nothing, to obey. She was built to be faster, smarter, stronger. A weapon disguised as a woman. Love was collateral. Emotion was failure. But even weapons misfire. When a classified operation goes wrong, her systems malfunction and she begins to feel. Now the deadliest woman alive must decide whether to obey the orders that made her or follow the pulse that might destroy her. When a file lands on the President's desk marked Dr Hailey Berkeley, Alex faces a target she cannot destroy. A woman who unravels the silence she was trained to worship. Desire becomes the fracture in her precision; love, the code she can't rewrite. As power shifts in Washington and enemies rise from the ruins of Omega, Alex must choose between the country that created her and the woman who makes her human. Because in the world of Crossfire, loyalty is lethal... even monsters leave fingerprints on the heart and the Beast was never meant to fall in love.