The Blade Within

(Cover in Progress.)
Azalea had everything planned at eighteen, until she lost her boyfriend, her job, and the future she worked too hard to build.
Then a stranger notices her agility... and offers her something better.
Recruited into a secret network of towns that train assassins, Azalea is thrown into a world of brutal training, shifting power, and deadly loyalty. Alongside her is Selena: sharp, stunning, and born into the life Azalea is only beginning to understand, and Evander, her talented fellow trainee who somehow always ends up flushed when she gets too close.
But feelings are dangerous in a world built on survival.
And Azalea is starting to feel too much.
Selena has never known a life outside the assassin group. Raised to be perfect, powerful, untouchable, she hides the one thing that makes her feel weakest, she wants to love, and as one of the only queer women in her town, she's learned to bury that longing deep.
Until the rival towns give her something she was never meant to have.
Someone she was never meant to want.
As war threatens the fragile balance between towns, Azalea must fight to protect the life she chose.
And Selena must decide if forbidden love is worth betraying everything she was born into.
In a world of blades and loyalty,
falling in love might be the most dangerous move of all.