The White Calamity

They call him White Rose—a name coined for the way he moves through bloodshed untouched, every kill seamless. White Rose doesn’t remember a normal life. He remembers cages, blood, and the sound of men and women begging for mercy. The sound of his own heartbeat in the cold night. Trafficked out of America as a child, he was raised in brutal combat pits where criminals were thrown in to die, and children were trained to become executioners. Every year he survived, he became faster, deadlier, and harder to control, until he was transferred to the Ivory Pits of the Bleached Vale—an island built to contain the worst human beings alive. Now, after everything life has dragged him through, White Rose stands as one of the most feared mercenaries in the world, taking contracts soaked in blood and cleanup no one else can handle. His only rule is that no innocents are to be involved in any contract, or he kills the client. There’s only one problem: he’s tired. And for the first time in his life, he wants something to change.