Beneath the Scares

Athena Nikos is a ghost with a body count.
Forged by fire and loss, she is the underworld's quiet nightmare-an assassin who doesn't hesitate, doesn't miss, and doesn't stay. Every scar tells the story of a girl who learned too young that survival means becoming something deadly. The world knows her as a weapon. What it doesn't see is the grief she buried with her family... or the truth she's still hunting about the night everything burned.

Dante De Luca was raised to rule ruins.
He is power wrapped in charm, violence disguised as control-the heir to a ruthless mafia empire and the product of a father who taught him that love is leverage and weakness is fatal. Dante commands rooms the way storms command skies, but beneath the discipline and danger lies a man fractured by absence, craving connection while fearing what it might cost him.

An "alliance" forms on unstable ground. Athena desperate to uncover the truth about her family, and Dante chasing a revenge that threatens to consume him.

Leaves Athena and Dante with no choice but to work together, even though survival depends on trust neither of them can afford. Trust doesn't come easy to people like them. Truth is dangerous. Lies spiral. Lines blur. Boundaries are crossed.

Side by side, they chase an enemy while the truth follows close behind, and the longer they stand together, the harder it becomes to tell which threat will destroy them first-the enemy they're hunting, or each other.

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Or will the past come bite them in the ass, read and you will find out....