Ruthless by design

Alessia has spent her life in hiding, haunted by a past tied to secrets powerful people would kill to protect.She's kept her head down dreaming of nothing more than a normal existence. But everything shatters the moment she witnesses a brutal act tied to a shadowy organization, her cover is blown-and a kill order is placed on her head.

Nikolaus Salvatore is their most efficient weapon-cold, calculated, and living by duty and loyalty to his grandfather. Emotions are a liability he was trained to bury. But when he's ordered to eliminate someone, he finds a woman who is nothing like the enemy he was trained to kill and everything he can't bring himself to destroy.

As secrets unravel and danger closes in, Alyssa and Reigns are forced into a fragile alliance. But with every stolen glance and every unspoken truth, something deeper begins to burn between them.
The tension between them simmers into something far more dangerous than bullets or betrayal.

In a world where trust is deadly and love is a weakness, can two enemies survive the storm-or will their growing desire be their undoing?