"I didn't choose you, Katarina, you stole me."
Elijah White and Katarina Blois have grown up being each other's twisted mirror images. Both orphans, both skilled, both forged by and loyal to the biggest shadow organization in the world. They're shadows, figments to scare children, and utterly incapable of escaping their infuriating, inexorable draw to each other.
When both awaken on a mission gone wrong, surrounded by dead operatives, and set up as traitors, they receive the ultimate challenge: eliminate names on the list provided, or they both die. On the run and against time, they have seemingly no one but each other to rely on, and years of history between them to unravel. But someone is using them as means to an end, the question is: who? And is there anyone, including each other, that they can truly trust?
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As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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