She’s known by many faces — but never her own.

Sable is a phantom in the underground fight scene, a surgeon by trade, and a spy by design. No one sees her coming, and no one gets close. Not since her parents were executed in front of her for a crime they never committed. She’s spent years hiding behind false names and fractured identities, chasing the truth through backdoors, biometric keys, and blood-soaked missions.

Then Rafe Calder enters the frame —quiet, lethal, and haunted by a past that intersects hers in ways neither of them fully understand. He should be her enemy. He was trained to be. But there’s something in him that mirrors her: the same hunger for justice, the same fractures beneath the surface.

As the buried truth behind the Valkyrie Protocol resurfaces — along with ghosts from a black-ops directive known only as Erebus — Sable and Rafe are pulled into a game where loyalty is a weapon, and love is both a weakness and a warning.

Trust comes slowly. Desire comes faster. And in a world built on deception, the most dangerous thing either of them can do… is feel.

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