Kneel

Amanda Walter is the city's most ruthless defense attorney—icy, calculated, and undefeated in the courtroom. But behind her pristine reputation lies a secret identity as Venture, the masked ruler of an elite underground sanctuary catering to high-stress powerhouses who need to surrender their burdens. She plays by her own rules, dispensing her own brand of lethal justice to the city's worst criminals.Detective Bailey Reynolds is a lead homicide investigator drowning in the weight of his badge. Hounded by a string of untraceable vigilante murders and haunted by legal technicalities that let dangerous men walk free, his life is on the brink of collapse. Desperate for relief from the noise in his head, he steps into Venture's sanctuary—and drops to his knees for a mysterious woman in a leather mask.As the line between prosecution and submission blurs, their daylight war grows hotter—and the darkness threatens to reveal that the man hunting a vigilante is already kneeling at her feet.