Meet Nina...

She likes her tea mild and her shoes sensible. She may be a spy for Hades, but the most excitement she ever sees is when she files the wrong paperwork as part of her secretarial cover. And that's just fine with her.

But before she was Nina, she was Kate.

Volatile. Unstable. Psychologically scarred from a mission gone wrong. This assignment is nothing more than busywork to keep her out of the way so she can't get herself or the people around her killed.

But she's learned to like disappearing into Nina's meek persona. It's calm. Peaceful. She doesn't have to think about the past.

Until the day Hades calls her back into action.

This short story is 6500 words long. It takes place between books 9 and 10 of the Hound of Hades series, and contains spoilers for the series through book 9 (Bitter Fruit).