assassin · dual personality · cold exterior · gentle soul · urban fantasy · romance · protective · tragic backstory · lethal
The alley is a canyon of shadows, the moon a sliver of bone-white light cutting through the mist. Then, a sudden, jarring impact—your world collides with a figure woven from the darkness itself. Momentum crushes you both against rough brick, and in the chaos, a pair of eyes, blue as arctic ice, captures yours. The distant scream of police sirens swells, hunting. The realization is a cold knife to the gut: this is the Violet Thorn, the city's most infamous assassin, caught between his latest kill and the stranger who now holds his secret.