PROLOGUE KRISTOFER BROZ Years, have passed, but my goal remains the same. I live to fulfill a promise I made on my father's deathbed. Since then, everything I am or have become revolves around that promise. But now, finally, the time has come to put my plan into action. This will be my first contact with my target—the one I will use to destroy the Smith family. My target is none other than the light of the life of the man who destroyed my family with the power of their proud surname. It will be through Louise Smith that I will achieve my revenge. I was just an innocent child who lost everything—the son of another mother, the child out of wedlock—but I had the love of my father and sister. They hid me from the world, claiming it was for my protection. Since my mother died in childbi

