Sugar Coat

Hope is the kind of assassin people whisper about—precise, untraceable, and utterly unshakeable. She never misses. She never hesitates. She never asks why. Until the night she does. A routine hit shatters when an unexpected woman steps out of the shadows, forcing Hope to break her own rule: no collateral. One hesitation becomes a crack, and through it slips a truth she was never meant to see. The woman—Mia—claims the target isn’t a criminal at all, but a whistleblower marked for silence by the very organization Hope has served for years. And Mia knows far too much about Hope’s employers… and about Hope herself. When Hope demands answers, betrayal strikes from the place she least expects. Bound, gagged, and dragged into a conspiracy far bigger than any contract, she’s forced to confront a devastating possibility: she’s been the weapon in someone else’s war. Now, hunted by the people who once controlled her, Hope must decide who to trust, what to believe, and how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth. Because the deadliest assassin in the city is about to turn her sights on the one target she never imagined— The ones who made her.