What happens when your best friend dies? You go scorched earth of course. You hunt down the people that made her life miserable and you destory them. Navigating a relationship where you are in love with one man and falling for another complicates emotions that are new to Lyla Michaelson an Elite Assassin and the Queen of the Underground. She grew up emotionless but loyal to her family and the one person who was never scared of her. But meeting Conner Bruin changed that. He was first her pet, her plaything that quickly became a favorite and now he is the man that she's opened up to. But the man that's in love with him is quickly getting under her skin and borrowing into her heart too. Just when she thinks she can try to live a normal life. Her best friend disappears and later is found dead. She knows who did it and when she finds out the truth of the hell her best friend went through, she slays every last demon that hurt her.