Hearts Under Fire

Fifteen-year-old Catherine Herrmann watched her parents-two of Europe‘s brightest justice-fighters-executed in the courtyard of their own villa. She was left for dead, a bullet in her leg and a promise in her ears: "One day you‘ll hear my voice again." She spends the next decade turning that night into fuel. Now a rising investigator with Europol and the BKA, Catherine lives for the hunt. Her target: "El Fantasma", the shadow network that reaches into courts, police, and governments-and the man who ordered her family‘s murder. When a high-risk operation explodes, Catherine discovers a deeper truth: someone inside the system has been feeding her enemies for years. Every near-miss, every failed raid, every ambush was ed. And the same people who built that trap have found a way to turn the trauma in her blood into a tool. As Catherine races from Munich to Prague, Milan, and beyond, the line between justice and vengeance blurs. The only people she can truly trust are a stubborn trauma-surgeon uncle, a former special-forces operator who refuses to leave her side, and a handful of allies as broken and dangerous as she is. To stop the network and the man behind it, she‘ll have to walk straight into the lion‘s mouth-knowing she may not walk back out. In a world built on blood and betrayal, can Catherine stay on the side of justice, or will vengeance claim what‘s left of her heart?