Twisted Tulip

When seeking revenge, dig two graves.

River Reyes comes prepared to fill both.

Comes to the tulip fields to kill her.

A Marine Scout Sniper with blood on his hands and ghosts in his head, River has spent three years planning the perfect shot. One woman. One trigger pull. Justice for his fallen brothers. An end to the war that never leaves him. He doesn't intend to walk away afterward. Some missions are meant to be terminal. For both parties.

Doctor Helene Ward should die on her porch in a storm. Instead, she makes the sign of the cross, then opens her arms wide to welcome the shot. A former CIA counterintelligence officer living in self‑imposed exile, Helene carries her own buried sins, her own classified betrayals, and a grief that never loosens its grip. She knows exactly what she did. She knows what it costs. And when death finally finds her, she doesn't run, she craves it.

But when River abandons his scope and steps out of the dark to face her eye to eye, everything fractures. The shot never comes. Her executor is attacked. Blood is spilled. Lines are crossed. And the man who came to end her life can't stop thinking about the way she surrendered.

Revenge turns into fixation.
Hatred mutates into hunger.
And mercy becomes the most dangerous choice of all.

Because when a woman is ready to die, and the executioner refuses to pull the trigger, what follows isn't forgiveness.

It's obsession.