Jillian Beane – författare

A devoted scientist and the test subject she can't stop fighting for must trust each other with their lives — in a facility designed to make sure neither of them makes it out. Ten years ago, a super volcano in Thunder Valley reshaped the world. Phoenix Corps stepped in to rebuild it — and Faith Moira believed them.Recruited straight out of school to study the Tempest Program — soldiers engineered to withstand extreme temperatures — she's never questioned her work. Until she's assigned to Seven-Nine-Four-Five, the one subject the Tempest Program couldn't predict.Cole has survived horrors she can barely comprehend, and he has no reason to trust her. She's one of them, as far as he's concerned — another face behind a clipboard while Phoenix Corps tears him apart. But Faith is starting to see the cracks in everything she believed, and what she finds buried in classified files will force a choice: her career, her safety, or him.She holds his fate in her hands — and somewhere between what she uncovered and stolen glances, she stopped pretending she didn't care what happened to him. His survival is the only promise she intends to keep.She's spent years trusting Phoenix Corps with everything. Now the only person worth trusting is the one she was never supposed to see as human.

After a lifetime of saving others with science, a doctor must learn to save the man she loves the only way left available to her — by becoming the weapon Phoenix Corps never saw coming. She made a promise. Phoenix Corps just made sure keeping it would cost her everything.On the run with stolen evidence and a target on their backs, Fate and Cole fight their way across a broken landscape toward the one place they might finally be safe. Every mile changes her. Every battle leaves a mark she can't wash away. The scientist who believed in the mission is gone — and what's rising in her place surprises even her.She came to study him. Now she's fighting beside him, for him, because of him — and the wrath driving her forward is the only thing keeping them both alive.She never imagined she'd become someone capable of this. But Phoenix Corps took everything from the people she loves, and Fate's wrath, once unleashed, cannot be undone.Some promises are paid for in blood. She'd pay every last drop to keep hers.