These Things I've Become
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Last published Sun, Nov 17, 2019
Cassandra Hawthorne is a trained killer. The child prodigy of her infamous father, since the age of 10 she was raised to kill, to discard emotions, and to meet her Ends. Her life at the Bureau is all she's ever known and all she wants to know.
At 16, the Bureau discovered her talent of seducing her targets, man or woman, and gave her the code-name Helen on her Charges. Infamous for never failing to meet her Ends, until Donald Harvey. Her first failure has sent her into hiding for the past three years. But now Harvey is back in power and the Bureau pull Cassandra out to finish the job she started all those years ago.
But playing the long game isn't something Cassandra is used to, especially when her path to Harvey is through his son, Alexander. Cassandra thinks she's got all she needs to succeed, but her revenge might be harder to reach than she thought.
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