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Catherina thought she had escaped. She thought she had buried the assassin she once was beneath the quiet hum of a new life. But ghosts don't stay buried, and the Bratva never forgets. Viktor Kozlentova-the ruthless leader of the Bratva and the man who once molded her into a weapon-wants her back. Not just as an asset, but as something far more twisted.
With a bounty on her head and danger closing in, Catherina is forced to do the one thing she swore she never would-run. But running means leaving behind the one person who has ever truly been her family-Lexi, her best friend and the only light in her dark world.
Enter Detective Ethan , a man whose past is just as fractured as hers. Driven by justice but haunted by his own demons, Ethan isn't the kind of man who walks away from a fight. And when Catherina crashes into his life-fierce, guarded, and with blood on her hands-he knows he should stay far away. But the pull between them is undeniable, a collision of fire and ice, danger and desire.
As they work together to dismantle Viktor's empire, the lines between hunter and hunted blur. Every move they make leads them deeper into a tangled web of lies, betrayal, and the echoes of a past neither of them can outrun. When Viktor plays his most vicious hand-using Lexi as bait-Catherina must decide: keep running, or become the killer she swore she'd never be again.
With the city burning around them and desire threatening to consume them both, Catherina and Ethan must face the truth-some love stories are written in blood.
Will she embrace the darkness she left behind to save the only people who matter? Or will Viktor succeed in pulling her back into the shadows, where she was always meant to belong?