He lives by a code written in blood. Her name is his next target. I am a shadow, a weapon honed by a lifetime of violence. Emotion is a liability I discarded long ago. My assignments are simple: I am given a name, and I make a problem disappear. Permanently. My new target should be no different. But she is. She's the brilliant ray of sunshine in a world I only know as darkness. She embodies a kindness and morality I thought were myths. Every moment I watch her, studying her for the kill, she chips away at the stone around my heart. Now, I've broken the one rule that has kept me alive: I refused the job. Instead of her killer, I've become her unseen protector, a ghost in the periphery of her life. She has no idea that the man watching over her is the same one who was sent to end her. But my defiance has a price. The very people who trained me are now hunting us both. To save her, I must use the deadly skills she would despise and risk revealing the monster I truly am. She sparked a conscience I never knew I had, but can a man forged in death ever deserve a life with her? Or will the truth not only shatter her heart, but get them both killed?