Dead Drop Valentine

"There is no such thing as an innocent bouquet. Someone chose every stem, and someone else will have to live with what it said." Nessa Wu is a florist in Chicago, drowning in medical debt left by her late mother. To survive, she uses a deadly inheritance: a secret floral code designed to transmit contracts for a powerful network of assassins. She arranges the bouquets. Someone else does the killing. Orion is the network's weapon. A ghost of a hitman with thirteen fake identities. When a target deviates from the plan, he is sent to a rooftop to surveil Nessa for eleven days, with orders to eliminate her. But through the scope of his rifle, he makes the only decision in his life that wasn't dictated: he lets her live. Five years later, just before Valentine's Day, a new contract is dropped. Orion's name is hidden in the flowers, and someone has set Nessa up to deliver it to him by hand. Hunted by the cleaners of their own organization, the florist and the assassin have no choice but to ally. Orion is ice-cold, methodical, and dangerously protective. Nessa is brilliant, resilient, and refuses to be a simple victim. Between them builds a searing tension and a deadly game of cat and mouse where the slightest mistake will be fatal.