The Pact, In Pursuit of Her: A dystopian Sci-Fi Thriller, post-apocalyptic, Book Zero-One: Zero-One

Rebecca Salvatore is the Black Orchid, a rogue assassin famous for surviving torture that should have killed her. After her parents were murdered, ten-year-old Rebecca was taken to a fortress disguised as an orphanage. There, the Pact stripped children of their names, punished every attachment, and trained its most gifted captives to become obedient killers. Rebecca became everything her instructors wanted-clever, ruthless, and almost impossible to break. Then she turned their lessons against them and escaped. In 2136, humanity clings to life inside twelve fortified Sects. Beyond the Red Borders, the PSZ virus has transformed humans, animals, and even plants into Eaters, creatures that hunt living heat. Within the borders, the Pact operates from the shadows, deciding who may live, who must die, and which truths the surviving world is allowed to know. Rebecca has spent years among criminals and smugglers, hunting the Pact's twenty-four Elites and searching for the reason her family was destroyed. When the man she once loved returns with secret records from their childhood, she discovers that her escape may never have been an escape at all. Driven by vengeance and a need for answers, Rebecca must form an uneasy alliance with people she has every reason to kill. The trail leads toward a plan capable of wiping out the uninfected survivors beyond the Red Borders-and toward the old enemy who has been shaping her life from the beginning. Rebecca has no interest in redemption, and she has never pretended to be a hero. To bring down the Pact, she will use every lie, weapon, and vicious lesson it forced upon her, even if destroying the organization means becoming the formidable assassin it always intended her to be.