Thirteen years ago, the Russo name was erased in fire. Nova and Nico Russo were children when they were stolen from the burning ruins of their family estate and dragged into the "Nursery"-a black-site facility designed to turn children into the ultimate weapons. Under the clinical cruelty of Alfred Bianchi, they were broken, rebuilt, and reborn as The Aces: ghosts in the machine, programmed to kill without question and live without memory. But the "Winter of the Soul" is a fragile thing. When a mission brings them face-to-face with a brother they didn't know they had and a past they weren't supposed to remember, the programming begins to shatter. The Aces were designed to be the perfect assets, but Alfred Bianchi made one fatal mistake: You can't cage a storm and expect it not to break the sky. BOOK 2 ASHES OF THE ARCHITECT Now, joined by the Russo's and a ghost from their past, the Aces are coming home. From the rain-slicked streets of Paris to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, the Russo siblings are reclaiming their bloodline one kill at a time. The dead have returned. The Architect is hunted. And this time, they aren't just bringing the fire-they are the fire.