He escaped their control. But she never left his mind.
In the shadow of a totalitarian regime, Black?once Isaac Moreau, an elite Purger?has broken free from the Ascendancy's control, haunted by memories of a life he never lived. As he flees across a dying world, hunted by the very soldier he once trusted most?Viper-13, precise, relentless, and all too familiar?he must confront not just the ghosts of his past, but the flicker of something deeper that still binds them.
With his mind fractured and his freedom uncertain, Black must decide if he's still the Ascendancy's weapon... or a man worth saving.