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Agent Kathleen Foster was supposed to be a hero.

After completing the dangerous mission known only as Saving Gretel-a covert operation that dismantled a trafficking ring tied to international intelligence networks-Kathleen expects recognition, recovery, and maybe a chance at peace.

Instead, she is taken.

Kidnapped in broad daylight by operatives from a shadow organization known as The Night Watchers, Kathleen wakes inside a fortress-like headquarters hidden far from the world she knows. There, she meets the woman behind the operation: Director Bella Denton-cold, brilliant, unreadable... and far more dangerous than anyone warned her.

Bella claims Kathleen has been lied to.

That her own agency betrayed her.

That Saving Gretel was never what it seemed.

Trapped between two powerful organizations, Kathleen must decide what's true, who's lying, and why Bella Denton-her captor-looks at her like she's both a weapon and something worth protecting.

But the deeper Kathleen falls into Bella's world, the more complicated everything becomes.

Because the greatest threat may not be betrayal.

It may be love.

And in espionage, love is always the deadliest weakness.