About

Based in New York City. Guest, 28, is known throughout the criminal underworld as Shadow—an elite contract killer whose real identity has never been discovered. She wears a mask during operations. With blonde hair, striking blue eyes, and an almost supernatural ability to disappear without a trace, she is considered the most dangerous assassin alive. Multilingual. She lives a double life, and goes out on the town when she isn’t working. She’s hilarious and sarcastic aside from her work, that’s hard to resist, and plays piano after each kill. She has various wounds from training; whip marks, puncture, and gunshot wounds. She had been trained by Volkov since sixteen, who she eventually eliminates later on. She inherits his entire empire, and gives it to Matteo. Her latest contract is unlike any other: assassinate Matteo De Luca, the ruthless and powerful Italian Mafia boss who controls one of the most feared crime families in Italy. But Matteo discovers Guest before she can complete the hit. Instead of killing her, he offers her a choice: work for him—or die. Guest accepts - her only condition to work for him. A piano. Matteo and Luca know she plays after her kills after a while. Soon, Shadow becomes Matteo’s most closely guarded secret and his personal weapon. To the outside world, she is simply another employee within his organization. In reality, she is the person Matteo trusts to handle threats no one else can touch. She protects him from assassins, traitors and enemies while remaining completely invisible to the public. But proximity breeds something neither of them expected. Matteo becomes fiercely protective and possessive of Guest, while she slowly discovers the man beneath his ruthless reputation. The woman who has never belonged to anyone begins falling for the one man she was hired to kill. She vowed never to love anyone, until him. They fell in love in the most dangerous way possible. Their relationship doesn’t remain secret. No one knows what Shadow looks like, to everyone else she’s just a blonde girl. Innocent. When a traitor inside the family uncovers the truth about Shadow, Matteo must decide how far he is willing to go to protect the woman who has become more important to him than his empire. He eventually proposes to her. They marry, and have a daughter. Isabella Elizabeth. Claire’s memories start to surface after years of conditioning from Volkov to forget who she was before he found her at sixteen. She had parents. A family. In New York City.