MY DAUGHTER, THE ASSASSINEleanor Hayes has spent twenty-one years believing she knows her daughter.Sophia Hayes is everything a mother could ask for—intelligent, graceful, disciplined, and fiercely independent. After years of protecting Sophia from the painful secrets surrounding her family's past, Eleanor believes the hardest part of raising her daughter is finally over.She is wrong.One night, Sophia comes home long after midnight.There is blood on her clothes.And for the first time in twenty-one years, Eleanor sees something in her daughter's eyes that terrifies her.Not fear.Not guilt.Recognition.Sophia has been living a secret life.Behind the quiet smile, expensive clothes, and carefully controlled personality is a woman trained to do what most people could never imagine. She knows how to disappear without leaving a trace. She knows how to identify danger before it arrives. And when someone becomes her target, running is almost impossible.She is an assassin.But Eleanor cannot understand how the daughter she raised became a weapon.The answers begin with a man Eleanor believed was dead.Victor Hayes.Sophia's father disappeared years ago, leaving behind unanswered questions and a family devastated by his absence. Eleanor built a new life and refused to look back.Now Victor's name has resurfaced—and so has a dangerous organization connected to Sophia's hidden past.Then comes Cassian Black.Powerful, calculating, and surrounded by secrets of his own, Cassian has spent years hunting the people responsible for destroying his family. When his investigation leads him to Sophia, he expects to find a ruthless killer.Instead, he finds a woman who seems determined to hide her vulnerability behind an impenetrable mask.Sophia knows Cassian is dangerous.Cassian knows Sophia is lying.Neither expects to fall for the other.As their paths become increasingly entangled, Sophia discovers that her latest assignment is connected to a conspiracy much closer to home than she ever imagined.Someone has been controlling events from the shadows.Someone knows the truth about her childhood.Someone knows what happened to her father.And someone wants Sophia dead.For Eleanor, the greatest battle is no longer protecting her daughter from the world.It is discovering whether she can save her daughter from the darkness that has been living inside her life for years.For Sophia, there is only one question left:If the people who turned her into an assassin are the same people she once called family, who can she trust?As betrayal, forbidden love, revenge, and buried secrets collide, Sophia must decide whether to remain the weapon everyone created—or finally become the woman she was meant to be.Because sometimes the most dangerous secrets are not the ones we hide from the world.They are the ones we hide from the people we love.

Sarah Williams had everything a young woman could dream of—wealth, beauty, a powerful family name, and a man she believed she would spend the rest of her life with. But behind the luxurious mansion and glamorous family business was a web of betrayal she never saw coming. Her fiancé, Daniel, betrayed her. Her cousin, Vanessa, secretly envied her. Her stepmother, Margaret, hid devastating secrets about her past. And the people Sarah trusted most were working together to take everything that belonged to her. Then, one terrible night, Sarah discovers the truth. Before she can expose them, she is involved in a horrific accident and dies. But death isn't the end. Sarah wakes up five years in the past—with all her memories intact. This time, she refuses to make the same mistakes. She returns to the Williams family mansion determined to uncover every secret before her enemies can destroy her again. She knows who will betray her, who will lie to her, and who will eventually turn against her. But there is one person she cannot predict. Adrian Cole. Cold, powerful and impossible to read, Adrian is the CEO of one of Lagos's most influential companies. Sarah remembers him as a distant man who once appeared at the edges of her life. But this time, Adrian seems determined to stay close. As Sarah begins investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding her mother's disappearance, she discovers that Adrian's family is connected to secrets that go back years. Her mother's hidden files reveal shocking information about Sarah's birth, the Williams family fortune and a secret trust that could change everything. Then Sarah discovers something even more frightening: Her first death wasn't an accident. Someone ordered it. And the people responsible have been watching her ever since she returned. As betrayal, romance, family secrets and corporate power collide, Sarah must decide how far she is willing to go for revenge—and whom she can truly trust. Because the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. And the man she is slowly falling for may know more about her past than he has admitted. When the final secrets are exposed, Sarah will have to confront the people who destroyed her first life and decide what kind of woman she wants to become in her second. Will she allow revenge to consume her? Or will she finally choose freedom, love and a future of her own? She was once the heiress they destroyed. Now she's back. And this time, the heiress knows everything.