She was born to love then taught to kill. She has become everything but is no one. Known only as Bullet she was long ago forced to shed the name her parents gave her. Changed, molded and trained to kill with sharp-shooting efficiency she is one of The Collective’s most valuable assets. In a cadre of killers, Bullet is death waiting but her time for vengeance has come. He was loved and then he lost. He has become a hunter in search of revenge. Everything was taken from Rand the day a bullet ended the lives of his beloved wife and daughter. He has searched for their killer seven long years and may have her in his hands. Rand has suffered but now the time has come to make The Collective pay or die trying. Joy and sorrow are two sides of the same coin. Vengeance draws them together but before all is said and done they will learn love can either break you or make you stronger.

She walks in the darkness—it is all she has ever known. Arrow walks with death. It is bitter and black, and covers every step she takes. Trained from the crib to be nothing more than a death-bringer she knows she was born without a soul. The darkness is where she’s comfortable and she carries the weight of her duty notched on bow—ready to fly straight and true in to her enemy’s hearts. He has known love and loss—and then he finds her in the darkness. Adam knows his calling. Protect and serve. As a member of Trident Corporation he has found the perfect place to meet his obligations. Then he sees a woman with eyes of amber and he is taken under by her darkness. He touches her heart and knows he has no choice—share his light with a killer or lose his soul to her. Darkness and light. Two sides of one coin. Retribution draws them together but before all is said and done they will learn love can either break you or make you stronger.

Her tears will never reach Heaven. She was formed of the earth and time has hardened her into stone. To her marrow Bone is the coldest of killers. She is the only one of First Team who lusts for death. Yet even a killer’s heart can bleed. He has never wept for his greatest loss. Dmitry Asinimov knows well what it is to lose the ones you love. Nothing is thicker than blood, nothing. He has hidden his pain but never has he stopped searching for vengeance. Now he’s close to answers, but first he must break the woman whose eyes whisper of pain and whose strength is unlike anything he’s ever known. Bone and blood. Two sides of one coin. Retribution draws them together, but before all is said and done, they will learn love can either break you or make you stronger.

Her heart is as cold as the blades carried against her skin. Blade has known the heights of joy and the depths of pain, and walks the knife’s edge between them every day. Death is what she excels at; indeed, it gives her peace. But her world has focused to the very sharpest point, and it’s up to her to make sure First Team’s final step is flawless. She will not allow anything, or anyone, to stop her. His world was shredded by loss and betrayal. Ken Nodachi lost his sister and niece in a brutal hit that seared all the joy from his life. He has tracked the Collective since that day, and now has one of their finest in his sights. He believes that pain is about to be redeemed. But he’ll have to be quicker than the blade aimed at his heart because the vengeance he seeks could be what destroys him. Joy and pain. Two sides of one coin. Retribution draws them together, but before all is said and done they will learn love can either break you or make you stronger.