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Amrielle Sharpe has spent her entire life preparing for New York's prestigious social season. Gentle, brilliant in her own way, and unapologetically neurodivergent, she prefers clear routines over whispered gossip and extravagant galas. While the city's elite play polished games behind designer smiles, Amrielle simply wants to survive the season without becoming another target of high society's cruelty.
Cillian Graham lives in a different world entirely. Feared by the people who know his name and invisible to everyone else, he is an elite assassin whose contracts leave no witnesses and no loose ends. Emotions are liabilities. Attachments are fatal. He has never broken either rule.
One chance encounter forces their worlds to collide, leaving Cillian with a problem he never expected to have. The quiet debutante who was never supposed to cross his path becomes impossible to ignore, and the more he watches over the woman he accidentally pulled into his dangerous life, the harder it becomes to convince himself she is just another loose end.
As New York's glittering ballrooms hide corruption, betrayal, and bloodshed beneath their crystal chandeliers, Amrielle discovers that monsters do not always wear masks. Sometimes they wear tailored suits, carry impeccable manners, and fall in love in the most dangerous ways imaginable.
He was trained to eliminate witnesses.
She became the only person he could never bring himself to hurt.