Alaric has endured the harshest of training as an assassin. Now, after the CIA intervenes, a world of new dangers lurk in wait.
Alaric Gaul was raised from birth in the Firmament, a brotherhood of assassins based in Seattle, Washington - and the life of a young killer was not made easy. But just as things seem to hit a breaking point in his training, his brotherhood is swarmed by the US government and the children sent away to forget their upbringing in small towns around the world. Alaric is fourteen at the time.
He is sent to Hutchinson, Minnesota, a place not too big and not too small, perfect for consciously adjusting to the life of a normal teenager - but Alaric finds that a decade and a half of scars aren't so easily healed. Four years later, he is still suspicious of new people and crowded hallways. Who is the open-faced Russian named Lora? He can't keep his eyes off of her - and not in a good way. She stirs forgotten instincts of survival, and Alaric wants to know why. But how to get answers without revealing too much of his past?
Another NaNoWriMo. I feel like this one's a little beyond hope, but help is still welcome :)