CAUTERIZE

Some battles are fought in courtrooms.
Some are fought with a knife in the dark.

Maggie du Toit has been fighting both since she was fourteen.
Crawled out of the dark twice with scars and receipts, but never truly escaped.

When her adoptive parents' divorce case cracks open old files no one was meant to see, what started as a custody battle becomes something much larger.
Now the world calls her Spitfire, and the people who paid to break her are learning what happens when the broken refuse to stay down.

This time the war is legal.
This time it's in the open.
This time she's not alone.

Her brother has been preparing for this since their first encounter.
Her bodyguard, Caleb Quinn, spent years pulling kids out of cages.
He knows the cost.
He's willing to pay it again.
Together they will finish what started in a basement six years ago.

Some debts can only be paid in blood.