<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I am Valentina Ricci.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I wasn't born with a name.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My mother Sister Margarette was a woman of God but she soon forgot her vows when she was sent by her parish to provide spiritual guidance to death row inmate #39280.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Many havesaid my mother and father's meeting wasn't fated in the stars but rather it was churned in the bowels of hell.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because nothing good would ever come from my mother falling in love with convicted and infamous serial killer Patrick</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>O'Loughlin and having his daughter...me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The day he was executed was the day I was born.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Again another cruel twist of fate because I always felt like a part of his soul took over mine on that day. That can be the only explanation for why I do the despicable things that I do and like them...so very much.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I am part monster part saint.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There is no salvation for a sinner like me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Saint Maria's orphanage was my home as a child. And it was nothing but hell until I met</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>&nbsp;him</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lennon Shepherd.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We found one another in the direst of circumstances and I thought he was my forever. But forever came with an expiration date when he became the enemy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our adoptive mother Gianna Ricci has trained us to be her weapons in a war we never wanted to be a part of.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now grown Lennon and I are on opposite sides.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The boy I've loved since I was ten years old is the man I have to kill because if I don't...he'll kill me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I am hunted.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I am also the hunter.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>This is war...</em></strong></p>