Of Shadows and Ghosts
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Nicholas Stone is a Rogue Special Operations Agent with a deep wallet and a hungry dark passenger who has a ravenous taste for blood and a pension for playing the long game. He has chosen his new target, the Cross brothers, Sebastian and more specifically, Alexander, a former brother-in-arms who went AWOL protecting the woman he loves, a former technology, satellite, and security systems specialist named Isla Ardelean from the death bounty on her head placed there by the Shadow Government that once employed them all under very different sects. Taking down the Cross brothers would be a task no other has been able to do, for Nick, it was a welcomed challenge. However, his plans are altered when Isla enters the picture, leading to an adventure wrought with torment, passion, violence and power.
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