Soulette
Double Trouble
One heart is the trigger. The other is the target.
At sixteen, Alex Rider is a veteran of a war he never chose. He's used to being a pawn, used to the lies, and used to the weight of a world that only sees him as a weapon. But he isn't the only ghost the Rider family left behind.
Meet Abigail Rose Rider. Nineteen. Code name: Cheetah.
In the shadows of the intelligence world, Abigail is a legend-the most untouchable woman alive. Before she was MI6's premier asset, she was caught in a high-stakes fall in Dubai by a man who lives by the code of the impossible: Ethan Hunt.
While the world believes she was "hollowed out" in the clinical silence of Section R, Abigail's past is stained with the secrets of the IMF. She is a paper-white phantom with A4-pale skin, a girl so light she seems to displace the air, carrying the memory of missions that never officially happened.
When a mission in London goes south in December 2020, the two halves of the Rider legacy are slammed back together. As Alex digs into redacted archives, he uncovers the sickening "maths" behind his sister's existence-and the truth about why she was buried by one agency and disavowed by another.
Alan Blunt has one final secret. Abigail carries a micro-detonator at the base of her brain, and the fuse is hardwired to Alex's pulse. If his heart stops, her life ends. They weren't brought together to be a family; they were a contained, manageable unit of destruction.
Now, hunted by Scorpia and betrayed by the men who forged them, the siblings must break the leash. The "Untouchable" girl realizes that to survive, she must return to the only world that ever truly understood her: the high-velocity world of the Impossible Missions Force.
They wanted a weapon. They got Double Trouble.
She didn't have an anchor. Or did she?