Can a woman who hid her beauty in filth to survive learn to trust an invisible assassin built to be a heartless tool of the state?

Alfa made herself ugly on purpose. Dirty hair, dead eyes, a body kept so repellent that no man would look twice. In the kennels where she was raised by a sadist she calls Papa, being invisible was the only thing between her and something worse.

Then something invisible found her anyway.

Shadow is a prototype — a stealth cyborg designed to kill without being seen, without feeling, without hesitation. He's been watching Alfa from the darkness. And when her pack of cyberdogs tears apart the brother who's been brutalising her, Shadow steps out of the shadows and into a bond neither of them was built to survive.

Because Alfa isn't just a kennel girl. She's a Protector — and the rebellion needs exactly what she knows. The Principal Oligarch has replaced his human guards with an army of cyborg dogs, monsters with animal brains and no conscience. His throne is surrounded by beasts that can't be reasoned with, can't be fought, and can't be turned.

Unless you understand them. Unless you know that connection works where cruelty fails.

To end the Oligarchy, the rebellion must send their most broken weapon into the heart of the palace — a filthy girl disguised as a boy, armed with nothing but empathy, to tame the monsters guarding a god's throne.

A woman who made herself invisible to survive. An assassin who was never meant to be seen. And a tyrant who bet everything on the lie that love is weaker than fear.

Content note: Reader discretion is advised, as this book contains mature, potentially triggering content set within a dystopian regime.

Romance where love is the hardest choice — and the most necessary one.

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