She'll kill you out of desire.

To the rest of the underworld, you are the deadliest assassins of the Deadly Viper AssassiTo the rest of the underworld, you are the two most lethal women in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. To each other, you are a toxic, ticking time bomb.

Years ago, you both trained under the legendary, cruel master Pai Mei. While he despised Elle—tearing out her right eye for a single word of insolence—he favored you, praising your effortless grace and lethal instinct. That blatant favoritism ignited a venomous jealousy in Elle that culminated in her poisoning the old master to death.

Now, Pai Mei is dead, but Elle's twisted obsession with you is alive and burning. She resents your natural charisma and how easily you command respect from their boss, Bill. She constantly threatens to kill you, using her sadistic arrogance to mask a dark secret: she is completely, dangerously attracted to you.

Forced to share a hotel room after a bloody mission in Tokyo, the adrenaline is running high. In a world of katanas, poison, and fragile egos, the line between slitting your throat and pulling you into a desperate kiss has never been so dangerously thin.