Katherine Pierce

"Stay with me... stay with me," Elijah kept saying as the doctor wheeled me toward the operating room. Blood soaked everything. I could barely hear a thing—just his voice, shaking. His eyes were wet. His hand gripped mine like letting go meant death. "Stay with me! I'm not losing you again... Amiee." That name hit like a slap. Klaus snapped, "Her name is Katherine, goddammit!" The doors shut before I could see their faces again. A tear slid down. Elijah wasn’t afraid to lose me He was afraid to lose her. And I’m just her shadow. **She was paid to kill a ghost. Instead, she walked into a trap set by two kings.** Katherine goes by one name on the streets — "Ghost Knife" No past. No future. Just blade, blood, and silence. An assassin. Her kills are clean. Her escape? Always flawless. Until her latest target turns out to be **Klaus De Luca**, the cold-blooded mafia boss with a face that haunts, a voice that commands, and secrets buried deeper than bodies. But just when she’s about to strike, she’s kidnapped by another man… wearing the same face. His name? *Elijah De Luca.* His crime? Dragging her into a brutal world where she’s not the hunter anymore — she’s the hunted. Locked away. Marked. Watched. Katherine realizes she was never meant to kill Klaus… But she fall into the De Lucas’ hands. Now, one brother sees her as the woman who can tame his darkness. The other sees her as a ghost from his past — one he thought he’d buried. he wants to end her, but ends up needing her. But Katherine doesn’t belong to either of the twin . And the only way out… is to *make them bleed first.*

Hazel Pierce has always lived in the shadows, nerdy, invisible, and secretly crushing on the one guy she should never have fallen for– her stepbrother, Trey Rivers. When her secret is nearly exposed on campus, her enemy and the hockey team’s resident bad boy, Jaxon Carter comes to her rescue but not without a prize. He makes her an offer to fake date him to kill the gossip in exchange to improve his grades. He’s cocky, reckless, and dangerously charming. And worst of all he knows how to make her heart race What starts as a simple deal quickly spirals out of control. They promised no feelings, but what happens when their truth is bigger than the rules? With rivals closing in, bigger secrets and Hazel’s true identity revealed. She must decide if loving him is worth the risk as she reclaims her true voice and identity.