They came for the children.
In the dead of winter, Hydra tore through Sokovia like a storm-silent, precise, and unrelenting. Eight-year-old Nadya Belova and her older brother Pietro were stolen from their home, ripped from their parents' arms, and thrown into a nightmare masked by white walls and soft voices.
Locked away in a facility buried beneath the earth, Nadya wakes to a strange man named Doctor Lee-gentle smile, gloved hands, and promises soaked in lies. They say she is special. That her fear makes her powerful. That her pain is a gift.
But Nadya is more than an experiment.
She is becoming something Hydra never planned for.
As the walls close in and her memories begin to blur, she clings to the only truth she has left-Pietro is out there. And she'll burn the world if she has to, just to find him.
✦ A dark reimagining of the Hydra origin.
✦ Trauma. Power. And the making of the Blood Witch.