ARTESE

At five, Clara Artese gets kidnapped from her family. At seventeen, she returns as a weapon.

After twelve years in The Foundry, a secret organization that turns children into elite assassins, Clara has learned how to read every heartbeat, use her body to kill and her voice to manipulate.

When the her family finally finds her, Clara has only one non-negotiable condition: she won't go home without Silas and Vane, the two boys who survived the Foundry by her side. They are the only family she knows and she's ready to kill everyone who tries to separate them.

The Arteses will do anything to have her back, even if it means taking two lethal strangers into their family.

As a new mafia war looms and their past hunts them, Clara, Silas and Vane will learn that a family's love can be a lot more stubborn than whatever demon is chasing them.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Deadly Trio (Clara, Silas, and Vane) share a strictly platonic bond. They are family, not lovers. Each of them will have their own separate love interest as the story progresses!