As the youngest member of her High House, Catarina von Hasenberg is used to being underestimated, but her youth and flighty, bubbly personality mask a clever mind and stubborn determination. Her enemies, blind to her true strength, do not suspect that Cat is a spy—which makes her the perfect candidate to go undercover at a rival House’s summer retreat to gather intelligence on their recent treachery. Cat’s overprotective older sister reluctantly agrees, but on one condition: Cat cannot go alone. Alexander Sterling, a quiet, gorgeous bodyguard, will accompany her, posing as her lover. After Cat tries, and… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Physical & emotional parental abuse
- Alcohol consumption
- Non-consensual medical experimentation recounted
- Minor physical injury including maiming by cutting out tongue
- Death of parents in a bombing
- Murder & attempted murder
- Imprisonment
- Near-fatal motorcycle accident
- Torture (secondary character)
- War themes & attempted coup
Context : The protagonist’s father manipulated her genes as a child; her brother-in-law experimented on her sister without consent and tortured her.
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