Donna Monique has never missed a target. Not once.

She moves through the dark like it belongs to her, precise and controlled, the kind of assassin who finishes the job and disappears before the body cools.

Trained at St Raphael & Seraphim to turn gifted kids into weapons, she’s learned to lock every feeling down tight Until the contract arrives sealed in black wax and carrying her mother’s name as payment.

Her mark is Alessandro Vieri, the young Don of the Shadow Realm. Half vampire, half werewolf, a beautiful, terrifying contradiction who rules part of an underworld already circling the edge of war.

Vampire nobles want him gone. Wolf factions are restless. Human hunters are sharpening silver. And Alessandro? He knows she’s coming.
What should have been a clean kill turns into something far more dangerous the second he catches her wrist instead of her throat. Now the assassin has to choose. Finish the job she was paid for, or protect the one man who makes her feel like she might finally be more than the weapon they turned her into.