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Deadshot Darlings
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Ongoing, First published May 03
Mature
In a world of shadows, contracts are currency, and love is a liability.

Morana Valencia, codename Khalessi, is an elite assassin raised by a brutal underground syndicate after being plucked from the slums of Budapest. She's cold, calculated, and utterly lethal. Every kill is clean. Every mission flawless. But under the control and precision lies a hunger for something more-something messy, unpredictable... 

Kieran Deimos-known only as Shadow-is her mirror in every way: deadly, disciplined, and bound by loyalty to a rival organization. When a high-profile hit places them both on a collision course, the game shifts. The target becomes irrelevant. The real threat is each other.

Caught in a web of blood-soaked contracts, old grudges, and buried truths, Morana and Kieran must decide if they're going to destroy one another... or burn the world down together.

But in this business, attachments are fatal. And hearts-if they still exist-are just collateral damage.
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