The King's Shadow

They called me Specter. The King of Assassins. The deadliest blade in the Viper Syndicate's history. I never knew fear until the day my own brother in blood put a knife in my heart and threw me off a cliff. I should have died. Instead, I woke up in the body of Liana Vex, the discarded, illegitimate daughter of the most powerful duke in the kingdom. A girl so broken by abuse and grief that her spirit had already faded. In her final moments, she left me one desperate wish: Make them pay. So I made a pact with a ghost. Her pain would become my fuel. Her enemies would become my prey. Now I walk among the nobility in a body everyone calls weak. They see a fragile girl who should have died in the gutter. They don't see the killer standing in her shadow. My former organization thinks they buried their king. They're about to learn that dead things don't always stay dead. My new family thinks I'm a ghost they can ignore. They're about to discover that ghosts make the worst enemies. And then there's him, the rogue mercenary with the sharp smile and sharper blade. The only person who sees through my masks. My rival. My equal. The wolf who should know better than to chase a shadow. They say revenge is a dish best served cold. I intend to serve it frozen, bloody, and with interest. The Viper Syndicate took my life. The Vex family took Liana's. I'm going to take everything they have. And this time? I won't miss it.