Her tears will never reach Heaven. She was formed of the earth and time has hardened her into stone. To her marrow, Bone is the coldest of killers. She is the only one of First Team who lusts for death. Yet even a killer's heart can bleed. He has never wept for his greatest loss. Dmitry Asinimov knows well what it is to lose the ones you love. Nothing is thicker than blood, nothing. He has hidden his pain, but never has he stopped searching for vengeance. Now he's close to answers, but first he must break the woman whose eyes whisper of pain and whose strength is unlike anything he's ever known. Bone and blood. Two sides of one coin. Retribution draws them together, but before all is said and done, they will learn love can either break you or make you stronger.