Stateless

When you’re born without a trace, no one knows you’re a weapon.

I lie for her. I hunt for her. I kill for her. And above all, I betray my mission for her. She doesn’t know why. She doesn’t care why. I do. Treason comes in many forms. Love is one of them.

Our training taught me to be a sociopath. A machine. A pawn. Nothing more than a tool for a larger goal, without attachments or feelings. Our teachers forgot one important detail: pawns shouldn’t have hearts. Yet we do. It turns out our emotions are our greatest weapon. And I know exactly where mine are aimed.

It’s not against any formal rule for us to sleep together. It is, however, strictly forbidden to have feelings for each other. I can’t do one without the other at this point. Which means I am doomed. When you don’t know who you can trust, reality distorts. It twists and oozes, disintegrating and reformulating to meet whatever needs its masters demand. Just like me. Just like Kina. Except everything is different now that we know who we really are.

The future isn’t real. The past isn’t real, either. Only the present – solid and full, flying at our faces at breakneck speed as we work to protect others. And finally, ourselves. We’ve started to break the bonds of Stateless, a system as rotten as the one it seeks to destroy. But systems are organisms with one brutal goal: to survive, whatever it takes. Kina must do the unfathomable to save the children we rescued from the only home they know. She’ll use her mind, her body, her spirit – and her ultimate weapons: love, and me.

The Stateless series by USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine is a three-book romantic suspense trilogy following two operatives born and raised within a shadow government’s secret society of spies. Callum and Kina were created to be weapons – sociopaths without attachments, tools for a larger agenda. But when they discover who they really are, forbidden feelings become their greatest act of rebellion.

A spy thriller with searing romance at its core, the series explores what happens when two people engineered to be heartless discover that love is the one force their handlers never accounted for. Featuring a world of covert operations, shifting allegiances, and a system that will destroy anything to survive, the Stateless trilogy delivers relentless suspense, intense passion, and a fight for freedom that begins from the inside out. Readers who love spy romance, forbidden love against impossible odds, and thrillers where nothing and no one is what they seem will find this series unforgettable.