Vivienne Ho does not exist.

For five years the most composed woman in any Hong Kong boardroom has been a face Circe puts on by hand before seven each morning, and a life built so completely it became real to the woman wearing it.

Circe used to kill for a living, for a private house in Geneva, and she walked away from it six years ago. This is the season the house puts half a billion dollars on her head and every contractor in her old trade starts looking.

Damien Tang loses a container terminal to her on a Thursday and wants her by the weekend. His family opens a file on the woman he cannot stop thinking about, and he lets it run. He has money, no training, and no idea what he is buying.

The hunters only need to find her. Damien needs to see her, properly, at close range, and being seen is the one thing her craft cannot survive.

He is not going to stop.

A romantic conspiracy thriller for readers of Red Sparrow, First Lie Wins and The Night Manager. Romance and conspiracy carry equal weight, and both are explicit on the page. Book one of a trilogy; it stands alone.

Contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence. Intended for adult readers.