Blood Debt Hunter

My dagger was pressed to the throat of the border’s most ruthless fugitive when she gasped my dead mother’s secret name. In that breathless second, my forbidden blood-bond ignited, forcing me to keep the empire's deadliest killer alive—or let the psychic backlash tear my own heart apart. To the elite bounty hunter clan that discarded me as a useless weakling, she is a trophy meant to be slaughtered for gold. But as our linked blood floods my veins with her lethal stolen power, every dark truth she unravels proves my mother never died in an accident—my own father helped orchestrate her execution. Now, surrounded by ruthless family members who would butcher me if they discovered my cursed gift, my only protector is the marked assassin I was ordered to destroy. When my father's blades corner us in the dark, will I slit her throat to win my family's