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"Some ghosts never leave. Some become the people you learn to love."
Maeve Callahan has spent her entire life surviving.
After losing her parents during the war in Sokovia, she found a family in twins Wanda and Pietro Maximoff. Together, they endured HYDRA's experiments, emerging with extraordinary abilities-and scars that would never truly heal.
When Pietro dies during the Battle of Sokovia, Maeve loses more than her first love. She loses the future she never got the chance to have.
Now, recruited into the Avengers alongside Wanda, Maeve is determined to prove she's more than the weapon HYDRA created. Most of the team welcomes her. Some become the family she never thought she'd have.
But one Avenger refuses to see anything except her past.
Natasha Romanoff.
Years earlier, Maeve manipulated Natasha's mind to escape a mission before she was in the avengers. Natasha has never forgotten the feeling of losing control, and she has no intention of forgiving the woman responsible.
Forced to fight side by side, every mission becomes another battle between resentment and understanding. Every argument hides another question neither of them is brave enough to ask.
As old enemies return, secrets from HYDRA resurface, and the line between hero and villain begins to blur, Maeve must decide whether she's willing to keep running from her past-or finally face the ghosts she's carried for far too long.
Because sometimes the hardest person to trust...is the one your heart refuses to let go.