Thunderbolts*

In an alternate Marvel universe scarred by covert wars and betrayal, Valerie Romanoff walks the blurred line between legacy and survival. The daughter of Natasha Romanoff-born in the shadows and hidden from the world-Valerie was trained by the Red Room before vanishing into the underworld of global espionage. With no allegiance but to the highest bidder, she became infamous for doing unspeakable things for money: toppling regimes, eliminating targets, sabotaging governments. But when a contract went sideways and a whisper of her mother's name surfaced in the chaos, she found herself lured into a trap-an underground base buried beneath a dead city, surrounded by silence and secrets.

There, instead of executioners, she found reflections of herself. Jessica Hale, a precise and lethal assassin haunted by a blood-soaked past; Antonio Hovez, a disillusioned super soldier chemically enhanced beyond humanity; and Carlos Ruiz a mercenary with eyes that had seen too much. All of them were pawns-hired contractors working for the same secretive corporation now bent on erasing them to cover its tracks. Among them was a 11 year-old boy named David, gifted but scared, clearly another "asset" the company deemed expendable. Trapped and hunted, Valerie had a choice: die like an asset or fight like a Romanoff. For the first time, her war wasn't about money-it was survival, redemption, and maybe, just maybe, a path toward something more.