Red, White & Winter

Clara Carter has spent her entire life with a name that enters the room before she does.

As the granddaughter of the legendary Peggy Carter, expectations have followed Clara from the moment she entered the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. Everyone already seems to know who she is supposed to become: another Carter, another perfect agent, another symbol S.H.I.E.L.D. can proudly put on display.

Then Nick Fury graduates her early.

Thrown into the field before she feels ready, Clara quickly discovers that the real world is nothing like the Academy. The rules aren't always right. The good guys don't always win. And the organization she was raised to believe in has secrets buried far deeper than anything she was taught to uncover.

Working alongside the Avengers only complicates things further. Gods have flaws. Heroes make mistakes. Agents lie. And sometimes the greatest threat isn't knowing who the enemy is-it's realizing you might be standing beside them.

But Clara refuses to spend her life as Peggy Carter's shadow or S.H.I.E.L.D.'s prized legacy. She wants the chance to become an agent on her own terms, even if she has to make a few mistakes along the way.

And in a world determined to reduce people to their names, their pasts, and the things they've done, Clara begins to find an unexpected understanding with someone else who knows exactly what that feels like.

Because the Winter Soldier is not Bucky Barnes.

And Clara Carter is not Peggy Carter.