Emma Hix Secret | Agent

Emma closed her notebook. The travel writer was gone. Emma Hix, Secret Agent, was born.

Emma’s pulse didn’t change. Inside, a cold stone dropped into her stomach. Aris Thorne. The man who had recruited her out of MIT at nineteen. The man who had taught her to lie, to blend, to kill with a ballpoint pen. The man who had disappeared three years ago, leaving behind a single word scrawled in her apartment in her own handwriting: RUN . emma hix secret agent

She looked at the wooden book in her other hand. The Velvet Paradox. A weapon that could erase any memory, any enemy, any love. Emma closed her notebook

"Anywhere but here." He glanced at the gilded dome. "They're listening. The statues have cameras. Korr's men are already inside." Emma’s pulse didn’t change

But she also had the one thing Control could never erase: the choice to be free.