THE BULLET BETWEEN OUR HEARTS

Rebel sniper Noa Serrin shoots Captain-Medic Adrienne Sol aboard an armored train carrying the Winter Crown. Adrienne’s nanites trap the psychic round beside her heart and bind both women into a system that shares pain, heat, force and movement by negotiated ratios. The bond makes distance lethal and control dangerous. As the train crosses a collapsing Arctic bridge, they discover the Crown does not command weather—it can seize the combat reflexes of an entire population, and both armies intend to use it.

A rebel sniper shoots the enemy medic she came to kill, but the psychic bullet binds their wounds—and gives both armies one target.