Mathai Porter should know who she is. Instead, she wakes half-drowned in a vessel of water, with blood on her hands and no memory of the assassin she once was.

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The members of a secret Order insist she belongs to them. They say she was created to hunt the parasitic wraiths that roam the desert hills, feeding on the unfortunate souls that cross their path. They say it's all she's ever known. Designed with the ability to wield fire and bend the world around her, Mathai has one singular purpose:

Shoot. Contain. Kill. 

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But obedience never suited her.

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Searching for answers, Mathai navigates a fractured world in pursuit of five others created alongside her. Somewhere among them lies the truth of what happened on her last crusade and the memories the Order tried to strip from her. Her search derails the second she meets Jonathus Nox, a rogue operative whose presence is as intense as it is unexpected. Their abilities shouldn't work together. Somehow, they do, and the boundaries between desire and destruction begin to blur. The pull between them is irresistible, every near-touch a betrayal of reason. 
 
Now tethered by a past neither of them fully remembers, Mathai begins to question who the real enemy is: the secret Order … or the monster she was always meant to become.