Talons and Treason [STONEBOUND SERIES 5]

Emilee Harvey 23 stories

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Summary

Nico is the kind of spy who flirts with danger just for the rush. Loyal to the rebel underground, he lives for chaos, close calls, and the occasional reckless smile that gets him into more trouble than it gets him out of. Ezri is everything he’s not - cold, precise, and raised inside the Council’s machine. She’s the best tactician they have, and she’s starting to wonder if the side she was trained to protect is worth protecting at all. When a third-party faction captures them both and threatens to expose their true identities, the only way out is an alliance neither of them wants. Forced to work together under the cover of a relationship neither believes in, Nico and Ezri are thrown into a hostile city where the only thing more dangerous than the people hunting them is the way they keep ending up too close, too often, and too convincing. But the deeper they dig, the more they uncover: a weapon in development that could wipe out entire gargoyle bloodlines. Now the rivals who were never supposed to trust each other have to decide whether surviving the mission is enough… or if they’re willing to risk everything for the one person they were trained to destroy. High tension. Forced proximity. Accidental intimacy that feels a little too real. And a secret that could rewrite the war.