Author: jessiekwak

An ancient secret. A ruthless enemy. A deadly choice. With a warrant out for his arrest and a price on his head, Willem Jaantzen has gone to ground, but he and his crew aren’t out of the game. If they’re going to take down an opponent as powerful as a Chief Justice they need a bulletproof plan—and that’s going to take time. But as their rival’s net tightens around them, time is the one thing … thing Jaantzen and his crew don’t have. Jaantzen and the people he cares for most are caught in a dance with a vicious, tenacious…

Thala Coeur—Blackheart—is dead.Willem Jaantzen has been waiting to hear those words for almost twenty years. But he was also hoping they’d hold more satisfaction. Because it turns out his arch enemy has died as she lived—sowing chaos and destruction—and when a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep, he realizes she’s sent him one last puzzle from beyond the grave. As Jaantzen and his crew are … are plunged back into a game he thought they’d left far behind, one thing becomes painfully clear: Solving Coeur’s puzzle could be key to preventing the city from crumbling back into another civil war—or…