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"In a world where love can kill, promises are written in blood."
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BLOOD TIES
The first thing Seraphina Kane ever learned was how to kill.
Not how to read. Not how to laugh.
Not even how to love.
At seven years old, Damon Kane had found her in the ashes of a burning safe house — the last survivor of a massacre she couldn't remember. He had taken her in, fed her, clothed her… and forged her into a weapon.
By twelve, she could dismantle and reassemble a sniper rifle blindfolded.
By fifteen, she could disappear into a crowd, slit a man's throat, and walk away without a drop of blood touching her.
By twenty-three, she had earned a name whispered through the darkest corners of the underworld: "The Phantom."
No one knew her real name. No one dared to.
Damon called her his finest creation. But Seraphina knew better. She wasn't his daughter. She was his sharpest blade. And blades… eventually break.
She just didn't know yet what — or who — would be the one to break her.