Ace Navarro

BLACK & RED They call him Agent Black. Ace Navarro, 24, is one of the agency's most skilled operatives—calculated, dangerously confident, and never afraid to bend the rules. With his Spanish accent, sharp wit, and irritating habit of calling Oriah “Señorita” or “Miss America,” he has somehow managed to make being annoying an art form. They call her Agent Red. Oriah Vale, 23, is the world's most talented assassin and one of the agency's deadliest operatives. Beautiful, intelligent, fiercely protective, and impossible to intimidate, Oriah has spent years proving that she doesn't need anyone beside her. Unfortunately for both of them, their new mission says otherwise. After years of competing to dismantle the same mafia organization, Ace and Oriah are forced into an unlikely partnership by their boss, Director Elias Cross. And before long, they're given another problem: they must maintain ordinary lives outside the agency to avoid suspicion. Oriah returns to her family's coffee shop, Vanilla Bean. Ace gets a normal cover job he considers completely ridiculous. And somehow, they're expected to pretend they're ordinary people. But beneath the coffee, fake identities, arguments, and carefully constructed lies is a mission unlike anything they've ever faced. The agency has discovered that the mafia is preparing something called Project ECLIPSE. They don't know exactly what it is. They only know one thing: If Ace and Oriah fail to stop it, innocent lives won't be the only thing lost. And this time, there may be no way home.