The Shadow Within Silk

Kidnapped as a child and erased from the life she knew, Aria was forged into an assassin in a hidden compound where names were weaknesses and love was a liability. For twelve years she survived on discipline, blades, and the promise that escape was impossible-until the night she made it possible anyway, leaving fire and blood in her wake. Now she is back in the city she barely remembers, following a single fragile thread: the address on an old letter from her mother. ​ What she finds is not the exhausted single parent from her memories but a woman wrapped in silk and diamonds, living in a mansion owned by one of the city's most powerful businessmen. In the year Aria was gone, her mother married into obscene wealth-and along with a new husband, she gained five sons, each of them Aria's stepbrother, each with his own secrets, loyalties, and reasons to fear what Aria's return might uncover.