The Syndicate Chronicles Vol.1

Muskan Kim doesn't miss. Not targets. Not exits. Not the small, telling details that other people overlook - the way a room shifts when someone dangerous enters it, the way silence sounds different when it's being held by someone trained to hold it.
She is a ghost with four-point-nine stars on Etsy and a weapons locker behind her bookcase. A freelance sniper with clean hands and a clean reputation, operating in the shadows of a Seoul underworld that has never once looked her in the eye.
Until the night she finds herself on a rain-soaked rooftop in Gangnam, seventeen seconds from a shot - and realizes she is not alone.
One word stops her. One voice. One pair of eyes that look for exits instead of crowds.
Park Jimin.
To the world: a beloved idol. A face on stadium screens and magazine covers and millions of phone wallpapers. Soft-spoken. Devastating smile.
To Muskan: the sniper of the Bangtan Syndicate - the most powerful and invisible criminal organization in South Korea, hidden in plain sight behind the most recognizable K-pop brand on the planet. The man who found her when no one was supposed to be able to find her. Who knows her name, her cover, her history. Who contacts her through her Etsy shop like it's a joke she isn't allowed to find funny.
Who looks at her not like a threat to be eliminated - but like a problem he has already decided he wants to solve himself.
She hates him immediately. Precisely. With the same accuracy she applies to everything else.
He finds that interesting. That's the problem.
Crosshairs & Chains is a slow-burn dark romance set in the underbelly of Seoul - where seven men run an empire in the spaces between sold-out concerts, where trust is a liability, where falling for someone who can read your every calculated move is the most reckless thing a trained killer can do.
And where the most dangerous distance isn't the one between a sniper and her target.
It's the one she's trying - and slowly failing - to keep between herself and him.