Clara is a hero who sees everything. Her awareness maps every room she enters, every person, every threat. She tracks heartbeats through rubble and reads a punch before the fist moves. In Crosshaven, that makes her one of the best at keeping people alive.
Then the supermax collapses. Hundreds of the world's most dangerous criminals pour into the city in a single night, and Clara throws herself into the chaos with nothing but her suit and years of training.
She expects enemies. What she doesn't expect is Sonia.
Sonia was a hero once. Before the massacre. Before the trial. Before hundreds of people died and she was convicted for her part in it. Now she's free, the city is burning, and she's saving the same civilians everyone assumes she'd kill.
No one knows why. Clara isn't sure she wants to find out.
Instead, she starts asking questions no one wants answered.
What begins as suspicion becomes partnership. Partnership becomes trust. And trust, in borrowed time, becomes something neither of them planned for.
