Her Knife, My Throne

Abeni Ola is the underground’s most feared assassin, sent to recover a master key from cipher architect Folasade Adekunle and erase the witness. Instead, Abeni recognizes a cleanup order meant to bury them both. She keeps Folasade captive, and their brutal contest of control becomes an alliance against the syndicate that forged their scars. With one ivory-handled knife and an empire collapsing around them, captive and executioner fight to build a throne no one else can own.

An assassin is ordered to kill the woman holding her syndicate’s secrets, but sparing the target turns captivity into a war for their own throne.