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    Natasha Romanoff is drowning.

    The last of the Red Room is gone. The mission she'd started in Budapest is finally at its end.

    Dreykov is dead.

    Madame Baranova is dead.

    Yelena Belova is dead—presumably. The widows are still missing.

    And, yet, Natasha is still here. Going through the motions even as she can feel herself sinking further, her mind a battlefield of grief and guilt, plagued with growing feelings for a woman who saw through the pain she tried to hide from everyone else. Where before her enemies took shape in the horrors of her past, her greatest enemy is now herself.

    Only, when tensions grow within S.H.I.E.L.D. and missions turn awry, Natasha and Truth are thrown into a fight for survival. The real enemies are making their play, and Truth Castello, HYDRA's favorite weapon, is at the center of it all.

    What happens when the two most dangerous assassins in the world learn what it's like to be hunted?

    How long before Natasha realizes that she still has so much more to lose?

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