Haneul’s First Touch Changes Everything

Haneul kept one step away from every blade, because his best kill only worked when his hand touched the target’s skin. That ugly little rule shaped everything he did, from the way he circled a fight to the way he chose his friends. Jisoo was the only person who learned all of it first, and Haneul trusted him with the hand-bound book that held both their names. Then a new duty put Haneul in front of a visiting noble, a school tea house, and an upperclassman who looked at him like a prize. The problem was simple and awful. Someone was hiding a secret to protect him, and someone else was hiding one to own him. Haneul had to tell them apart before his life was signed away by the wrong hand.