78 Pages ASIN : B0GQJQH6Z4
Publication date : February 27, 2026
She was engineered to be valuable.
Up here, value gets you killed.
Mara Vance has spent her entire life underground in Shelter 17—monitored, optimized, and measured by Helix Corporation.
Every breath tracked.
Every decision calculated.
Every emotion suppressed.
When she steps onto the surface for the first time, she expects radiation, scavengers, and chaos.
She doesn’t expect him.
Ruthless. Controlled. Unapologetically dominant, he leads a hardened surface faction that answers to no one—least of all the corporation that built her.
But when Mara’s vitals trigger a corporate retrieval protocol, the sky fills with drones and a Helix transport descends with a single command:
Return the asset.
Helix wants their operative back.
The surface wants proof she isn’t a weapon.
And he wants her to choose.
As corporate forces close in and loyalties fracture, Mara must decide who she truly belongs to—the system that engineered her… or the wasteland that teaches her how to fight.
Because once Helix marks you as terminated—
There’s no going home.
--MY 5 STAR REVIEW TITLED: Wow. Just Wow !
I didn't see this one coming. And I loved it. Yes, it was shorter but it pulled me right in. Mara gets attacked right at the start of the story. This land dweller is kind of scary and overcomes her pretty quickly. She's been training since she was 12years old. Intense training ! Her Helix symbol on her suit gives her away immediately but it doesn't help her with him. The man with no name (yet) knows her moves though and she becomes intrigued with him. So did I and with the other woman who was also UN-named of yet.
Surprise ending..for Now. Ends up I want to read more about these stories. How does everything end? I want to know !
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