After her parents are brutally murdered by HYDRA, Cas becomes the "Conduit"-a psychic siphon designed to absorb the agonizing mental "noise" that plagues HYDRA's greatest asset: the Winter Soldier. To the scientists, she is a clinical success. To the handlers, she is a tool. But to the man she calls Buzz, she is the only thing keeping him from drifting into total darkness. Bound by a bond forged in blood and silence, the girl and the Soldier navigate a world of white lonely cells and brutal training. It has always been just them. As Cas struggles to find her voice and her purpose, she must decide if she is willing to become the weapon HYDRA wants her to be in order to protect the only person she loves. Because in a place built on pain, the only way to save a soul is to burn the system to the ground. (A story of survival, a found-family bond that defies programming, and a path that will eventually lead to a girl with magic in her hands and a different kind of red in her soul)

Sixteen-year-old Vicky never asked to fall through a green hole in the sky and land in the middle of the Avengers' lives. She's mysterious, sharp-tongued, and hiding scars-some visible, some not. The team doesn't know where she came from, and neither does she... but the voice in her dreams might. Between training sessions, grounding punishments, and late-night talks with Peter Parker, Vicky's building a life she never thought she'd have. But shadows from the past-hers and theirs-aren't done with them yet. And when HYDRA returns to claim what they lost, the fragile balance holding her-and the team-together begins to shatter. Trust is a luxury no one here can afford. Nightmares bleed into waking hours, and secrets claw their way out of the dark. Vicky's choice isn't between hope or fear-it's whether she'll survive the monster inside her... or become it.