Book Description
Warsaw's most dangerous man should have died when the blade touched his throat. Instead, Aleksander Nowak watched the assassin sent to end him seize up, a silver-edged mark blazing under her skin. Kira Voss has been the Pale Covenant's most precise weapon for nine years, her identity scrubbed, her past erased. When the fail-safe embedded in her own body refuses to let her kill her target, she discovers the truth the Covenant buried: she is a Wilk-line hunter, born to stand beside the protector they have been trying to break.
With a deputy minister orchestrating contract hits from parliament, a handler torn between loyalty and survival, and a city ready to burn, Aleksander and Kira strike an uneasy alliance. To expose Viktor Brennan they must weaponize the very bond the Covenant stole, hijack the routing network that runs on her DNA, and survive the night his state-trained strike teams breach the Nowak tower. Each step draws them further into the old Wolf legend — one that says a Wilk bond cannot be broken, only ignited.
Political conspiracies, midnight stairwell fights, Ursus extractions and ballroom interrogations collide as two lethal people learn that the only way to keep Warsaw from falling into parliamentary tyranny is to trust the one person their bodies will not allow them to harm.