Jacob DiFranco has been schooled to do one protect the legacy. When Millican Bruno slips his illegitimate daughter into Sommerson’s notoriously brutal Forma program, Jacob agrees to a favor he didn’t expect to keep—until he meets Aurora, fragile and raw from a life kept secret. What starts as duty becomes something infinitely more dangerous when a Family hit, a jealous rival, and old vendettas drag them into the kind of violence that demands bloody answers.