When the Cold Heart Becomes Warm

In an empire where corruption runs deeper than its foundations, wealth buys justice and the powerful answer to no one. Those who dare to resist are hunted, silenced, or broken.

Denial Bloodveil is one of the finest assassins in Vertiga — a man who has spent years asking no questions and feeling nothing. When he is sent to eliminate the strategist of a growing rebellion, a critical lack of information forces him to make a choice he cannot take back. Instead of completing his mission, he saves her life.

Her name is Evelyn Viewmont. Strategist. Revolutionary. And something else entirely — something dormant inside her, waiting for the right moment to awaken. Something even she doesn't know she carries.

One decision. Two people who should never have met. And a chain of events that may finally bring an empire to its knees.

Some things, once set in motion, cannot be stopped.