Cordelia has spent her life on a mountain, trained by a master she trusts completely. When she is sent to the city to guard Benedict, the CEO of Lu Pharmaceuticals, she slips into the role of a beautiful personal assistant, her martial arts skills hidden behind a polite smile. The job is supposed to last three months, but the attacks start on day one.
As she fights off hired killers from rival families, Cordelia starts to see that the threats against Benedict are tangled up with the massacre of her own bloodline. Every answered question about her origins pulls her deeper into a war she never chose. To protect the man she is falling for and the technology his family safeguards, she will have to decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice.
