BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION
For three years, trauma surgeon Mira Castell has secretly stitched together a criminal empire's wounded — without ever seeing the face of the boss who calls her at 2 a.m. and quietly pays off her brother's debts. She tells herself it's an arrangement. She doesn't know it's a trap, built for her alone.
Nico Costa has watched her from a careful distance for three years — learning her habits, her silences, the way she never accepts a gift. He is the heir to an empire soaked in blood, carrying a guilt with a shape he keeps locked away and revisits once a year, always with regret.
When a wound finally forces their first face-to-face meeting, three years of engineered distance collapse in a