Lyrix Vireya

The Assassin

Trained since childhood by the Order of the Chain, Lyrix Vireya is their most lethal blade. Over two hundred contracts completed without a single failure. No attachments. No hesitation. No room for anything as dangerous as wanting.

Her new mission may also be her last: infiltrate the fortress city of Caer Luthar and kill its warlord, Kael Thorne. She brings Jalen with her—reckless, unfinished, the only person Lyrix has ever allowed herself to care about.

But the mark she's carried since childhood—three black thorns burned into her flesh—pulses with a power she's never understood. She calls it her Shadow. The Order calls it a curse. And when Kael's own sigil awakens in her presence, she realizes the truth may be far more dangerous than either.