“Parker breathes new life into the assassin genre, seamlessly combining the action and world-building of John Wick with themes of power, found family, and what it means to step into the light and truly be yourself.”Rebecca Coffindaffer, author of Crownchasers

Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastiontheyre too powerful. Hiding failed to keep Trus parents alive, but moments before their murder, Trus mom pointed her to Logan Dire, a famed recluse assassin who adopted and trained orphaned Tru. At seventeen, shes still hiding. Not even her closest friends know her true name or Talent, or that shes balancing high school with knife and stealth training (while crushing on her BFFs older sister). When assassins interrupt a mundane babysitting job booked through BountyAppwhere lethal hunters find work and babysitters for their kidsTru flees with a one-year-old strapped to her chest and spiraling questions: Who killed her parents? Whom can she trust? What does it mean to be a bastion? And is it ever OK to kiss a girl whos trying to hunt you down? From an award-winning author comes a masterfully plotted thriller that holds character and relationship on a par with action and nail-biting suspense.