Heart of Shadows

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Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.® Raven is one of Guardian Security's deadliest shadows. A chameleon with a dark wit and a perfect record, she doesn't miss. When she's assigned a target, the mission ends quietly, cleanly, and without witnesses. Until the night someone beats her to the kill. The method is flawless. Familiar. Impossible. Because the only man who could execute it trained beside her—and she watched him die years ago. Now, Raven is hunting the Black Scroll, a lethal underground network weaponizing ancient doctrine for the modern age. Unstoppable assassinations for the highest bid. The deeper she goes, the clearer it becomes: the man she loved and buried isn't dead. He's at the center of it all. Forced into an uneasy alliance with the ghost who knows her every move, Raven must confront the truth she never saw coming. He didn't just fake his death. He was their test subject. Their proof of concept. And now someone has perfected what they did to him. Because this time, failure won't just unleash killers. It will mass-produce them.