Burn It Down
For Her

For fifteen years, Aleksandr Cross lived in silence, shadows, and steel. As the deadliest enforcer for the Vane criminal syndicate, he executed every order without hesitation, believing loyalty was the only virtue a soldier possessed.

Then he pulled open the heavy steel latch of container 407 on the midnight docks of Marseille.

Inside was Maya Vance. Defiant. Unbroken. A classical cellist sold into the dark to pay for the medical treatments keeping her dying sister alive.

In that single heartbeat, Alek's world shattered. He did not see contraband; he saw the only innocent soul left in a corrupt world. With two shots, he silenced his cartel handlers, severed his oaths, and sparked an international underworld manhunt.

Maya knows trusting him is dangerous. Alek is a lethal killer with ice in his veins. Yet as they flee into a snowbound sanctuary high in the Pyrenees, she discovers the tortured nobility beneath his scars. He does not take; he shields. He does not break; he bleeds so she can live.

When the syndicate tracks them down and abducts Maya's sister, Alek makes an irrevocable choice. He will not negotiate. He will breach the iron gates of the syndicate, eliminate every monster in his path, and walk straight into the flames so she can finally live in the sun.

For ten years, Lev operated as a phantom sniper in the shadows of the Mediterranean. When his brother-in-arms Aleksandr Cross walked away to build a life in the sun, Lev stayed behind in the dark with one mission: hunt down every warlord attempting to rebuild the trafficking pipelines and erase them from the earth.

Then an ambush in a rain-swept Marseille warehouse collides his world with the most dangerous investigator in Europe: Detective Inspector Chiara Moretti.

Chiara dedicated her life to the law. Her father, an incorruptible Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, was executed on a coastal highway four years ago. Chiara joined the Anti-Mafia Directorate to expose the men who ordered the hit.

Then she uncovers the truth: the magistrates in Rome sold her father out for bribes, and the cartel that murdered him controls the very system she swore to uphold.

Trapped by a joint syndicate hit squad, Lev and Chiara forge an explosive alliance. From high-society galas in Palermo to bloodstained naval docks in Genoa and the volcanic cliffs of Taormina, their partnership ignites into an all-consuming fire.

Lev does not try to tame her fury; he hands her a rifle. Chiara does not fear his darkness; she matches it with her own. Together, they will set the Mediterranean underworld ablaze.

Nikolas Thorne is the ghost of the high peaks: an elite former military sniper who lives in the snow and answers only to cash. When a shadowy syndicate offers five million euros to eliminate a financial auditor digging into their offshore accounts, Nikolas takes the contract.

He calibrates his rifle through a blinding blizzard on Piz Nair. He acquires the target in his thermal sight.

The woman in his crosshairs is Dr. Lauren Reid: the brilliant, courageous woman who saved his life in a frozen Geneva alley ten years ago and vanished into the night.

Lauren spent twelve years uncovering the financial empire responsible for her father's death. Trapped inside an isolated chalet surrounded by a private army of mercenaries, she is prepared to die for the truth.

Until the sniper outside turns his weapon on his own employers.

In a blizzard that has paralyzed the Alps, Nikolas breaches the compound, eliminates the kill team, and whisks Lauren into the frozen wilderness. Trapped together in a subterranean Cold War bunker, the burning attraction between them detonates.

From the bullion vaults of Zurich to the two-thousand-meter vertical ice walls of Piz Bernina, Nikolas will dismantle an empire to keep her safe. The men who hunted her are about to learn: there is nowhere on earth cold enough to hide from his wrath.