Former top assassin “Crescent Moon ?=” Elena Ste[!`;(rling retires )to liv ;?e ;a @norm[al li[!fe. On her wedding. day,^ she discove%rs her f_ -iancé and bes=;t -;friend’s betr)(/aya(l. Her `_adoptive  \bro +ther Lucas drugs her_- .@@a+nd` sell^s her t @ o a brutal underground+ death%-match ar`?$.e=@`na.$
Sav@+,ed by underwor^\ld ?godfather Domi)(ni=c  Rossi, w _h \ o has se!.arched] for)+ her f]or 15 years—\eve,r since she saved/ -
his life in ch?^(ildhood—Elen =a#? s%igns /a si
x )-month ]?fake  ^]fiancée co*+*+n tract with h!
im. In `)return,]( Domini[)c helps /%her tak$e r+eveng]?$e ^\[and u#@ncove\ %r the t:!(ru+_th of the Nightshad/e as)#sassin#, camp’s fal#l.
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d at firs[_%t, E#$#lena gradu=, ally^^ fall)=:s for, Dominic’s silent pr !o*tect`ion[. When their -+[enemy Bia.`nca attacks, Dominic takes a :*deadly poiso


ned bo$#:@lt for =:her. Forge;(d do\
:cument`*s l[?at_;-er separ^ate t+hem, mis;`le% +a! ding Elena into bel!ieving his family kill$ed her :]people.
Afte+[r ex\*p= osing the mole@- and $?clear!,-#ing misunderstan*

`]dings, they lear$
n Elena? ]/ is the sole surviv[;or of the destroyed Sterling )n$-oble family, fallen to a criminal a( llia\nce’s plot.
The )^+coup%le %d]]efeats !all ene ^mies and rega^ins_^ Elena’s!^ i([)%nheritanc[e. Dom\`inic abandons h$=+is power, tears up t[-he): contract, an#[d gi -
)ves Elena=$@ a real lifelon
g promise. They lea $ve t+/he violent u(^nderworld behind, s#;tar
t a new l[$_ife abroad%. ;, and we.lcome t[h+/eir ]c\]hild—tw]o broken souls f)i;,na+lly fin^?\di]!@ng tru#=:e, equal love.