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In a bustling modern city where ancient secrets and mysterious powers collide with everyday life, 22-year-old Ethan Cross seems like your average college student. Behind his unassuming demeanor lies a man shrouded in secrets—a masked vigilante known only as "Virtuoso," feared by criminals and sought after by powerful organizations.

Ethan is overpowered, sarcastic, and ridiculously skilled at everything he does. But there's one thing he’s terrible at: romance. When the enigmatic and fiercely independent Mia Harper stumbles into his life, she unknowingly becomes the key to unraveling a conspiracy that ties Ethan's past to an ancient prophecy.

Between laugh-out-loud moments, explosive action, and unexpected twists, Ethan navigates his double life while trying to protect Mia, keep his identity hidden, and maybe—just maybe—figure out how to confess his feelings without being a complete disaster.

The Masked Virtuoso

The night air was thick with tension as Mia moved through the outskirts of Haven, her boots crunching softly against the frost-covered ground. A Rift anomaly pulsed faintly in the distance, the shattered remnants of Riftfall Bastion still flickering like dying embers in the sky.

She wasn't sure when the doubt had started creeping in. Maybe it was when she saw Nathaniel standing in the Rift, eyes glowing with knowledge the others refused to acknowledge. Maybe it was the way Orion looked at Ethan-like he was already a liability.

Or maybe... it had been building for a long time.

She just never wanted to admit it.

She reached the cliffside meeting point, the air warping unnaturally around a Rift tear-a wound in reality, pulsing faintly like a beating heart.

Fractured Loyalties