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Vengeance
The Assassin's Legacy Series
Adalyne Pearse walked away from her family's criminal empire to build a life of her own. Free from the danger, the violence, and the suffocating protection of her father, she believes she has finally escaped the world she was born into.
Then she meets Callen Stoic.
He is arrogant, dangerous, devastatingly attractive-and somehow always where she is. What begins as a suspicious game of chance quickly becomes an irresistible attraction, and before Adalyne realizes it, she has fallen completely for the man she believes may be the one person who truly understands her.
But Callen has been lying from the beginning.
For fourteen years, he has been raised on one purpose: vengeance.
His mother, Elena, has never forgiven Donald Pearse for the deaths of her husband and eldest son. She has spent years turning her three sons into deadly assassins, preparing them for the day they would finally destroy the Pearse family. And now Callen has found the perfect weapon-the daughter Donald loves most.
Adalyne.
His mission is simple: gain her trust, make her fall in love with him, and bring her home to face the woman who has spent years plotting her family's destruction.
But Callen never expected to fall in love with his target.
Callen finds himself torn between the family who made him a killer and the woman who has awakened something inside him he thought was long dead.
Then Adalyne discovers the truth.
The man she loves is the assassin sent to destroy her family.
And the woman behind it all will stop at nothing to finish what she started.
With blood spilled, secrets exposed, and both families preparing for war, Adalyne must decide how far she is willing to go to protect the people she loves-even if one of them is the very man who betrayed her.
Callen has spent his entire life believing vengeance is his legacy.
But when revenge demands the sacrifice of the woman he loves, he must choose between the blood that made him and the love tha