Quinn Walker has spent her entire life as a secret assassin, trained from childhood by a covert organization to eliminate the world’s greatest threats before they could emerge. During one of her final missions, she discovers she is the unwilling host of the Power Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones. The artifact has fused with her, granting unimaginable strength and energy manipulation—but slowly threatening to consume her.
Athena Salvatore was never meant to exist. As a child, she was stolen from her family and forced into The Black Circle, a secret organization that conducted brutal experiments on gifted children in an attempt to create the world’s most powerful superhumans. Years of torture awakened abilities unlike anything the world had ever seen—Chaos Magic, the power to warp reality itself, and the terrifying ability to control the minds of others with nothing more than a thought. When The Black Circle finally fell, Athena vanished into the shadows, hiding from a world that would either fear her or try to use her again. Everything changed when Nick Fury found her. Believing the Earth would soon face threats that demanded extraordinary heroes, Fury offered Athena a place on his newly assembled Avengers team alongside Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Thor Odinson, Clint Barton, Sam Wilson, and Bucky Barnes. While some of the team questioned whether someone with powers as dangerous as Athena’s could ever truly be trusted, one person never looked at her with fear. The moment Bucky Barnes met Athena, he couldn’t take his eyes off her. Beneath her guarded expression and haunting past, he saw someone as broken as he was—someone who understood what it meant to be turned into a weapon. What began as quiet admiration quickly became an overwhelming obsession. Bucky found himself constantly watching over her, standing at her side during missions, and convincing himself that no one else could protect her the way he could. Whether Athena welcomed it or not, Bucky silently vowed that he would do whatever it took to keep her safe… and, eventually, to make sure she was his.
