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In the dark heart of the Republic, secrets don't stay buried, they get harvested.
For years, Leila Sterling has lived as a ghost. Known in the as the Cleaner, she is a surgical prodigy turned vigilante, a woman with mismatched eyes...one a freezing sapphire, the other a predatory crimson. Her mission is singular, cross every name off the list of men who murdered her father and burned her legacy to ash. She doesn't do partners and she doesn't do mercy.
Detective Cophie Thorne is the Law's last honest man, he's spent his career chasing shadows but he's never encountered a shadow that bleeds until he corners Leila. He's supposed to bring her in but when a high level political conspiracy targets them both, the hunter and the prey must strike a lethal bargain.
As they navigate a landscape of human trafficking, political assassinations and the rot of the Presidential palace, the lines between justice and vengeance blur. Cophie is determined to save Leila's soul while Leila is determined to finish her harvesting even if it costs her everything.
But in the heat of the chase, a different kind of fire ignites between the adrenaline of the hunt and the intimacy of the mend, Cophie and Leila discover that the only thing more dangerous than their enemies is the soul shattering bond forming between them.
Can a man sworn to the Law love a woman who lives above it? Or will the ghosts of her past consume them both before the truth comes to light?