She paints the future. He was built in a lab to fight it. The paintings keep showing them together.

Ashling Flanagan's life in Vancouver is quiet, careful, and a lie. She doesn't know why her father spent his life looking over his shoulder. She doesn't know why her paintings sometimes show things that haven't happened yet. And she doesn't know that the people who made her are coming to collect.

Because Ashling isn't entirely human. She's a dormant experiment — panther DNA sleeping in her blood, waiting for the right trigger. And the Guild doesn't lose track of its assets forever.

Charles Barrineau is the trigger she didn't see coming. A master operative with gold eyes and a beast on a fraying leash, he's spent his life as a weapon pointed at the Guild's infrastructure. He doesn't do distraction. He doesn't do compromise. The mission to dismantle an empire that's preparing to abandon Earth doesn't leave room for anything personal.

Then his cat catches a scent in Vancouver, and the woman it belongs to is painting burning mountains and a future that has his face in it.

Ashling can hold onto the quiet life that was never real. Or she can let the thing sleeping in her blood wake up and follow a man she's already painted into a war zone — knowing that the prophetic fire on her canvas is coming whether she's ready or not.

A woman who sees tomorrow in paint. A weapon who was never supposed to want anything. And a bond that turns both of them from instruments into people.

Romance where love is the hardest choice —and the most necessary one.
fated mates; ticking clock; alpha hero

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