"They trained her to be a killer. They never expected her to fight back."

Inside Blackwood Academy, there are no students—only weapons in the making. Orphaned, genetically enhanced, and stripped of their identities, recruits are shaped into emotionless assassins, tools in a covert war waged by a powerful organization known only as the Serpent's Hand.

Anya was supposed to be one of them.

But rebellion stirs in the academy's shadowed halls, whispered between stolen glances and forged in forbidden bonds. As her missions grow darker and the academy's secrets unravel, Anya discovers she was never meant to serve—she was meant to survive.

Now hunted by her former masters and betrayed by those she trusted, Anya must uncover the truth behind Project Chimera, a terrifying plan to unleash an unstoppable army. With a team of unlikely allies, she'll risk everything to spark a rebellion that could either bring down the Serpent's Hand—or cost them all their lives.