The next era of the #1 Amazon mystery bestselling Winter Black series by international multi-million bestselling author Mary Stone is finally here!

Winter Black didn’t go looking for the next fight. It came for her.

When a covert recruitment event is attacked before it officially begins, Winter is pulled into a unit that isn’t yet approved, isn’t operational.

And may not survive long enough to become either.

Formed under the Department of Justice, CROSS—Cross-Border Risk & Offender Suppression—is designed to operate where no single agency can. No red tape. No jurisdictional limits. It targets the most dangerous threats, no matter who…no matter where.

It brings together operatives from different backgrounds, different cases, different pasts. Some she knows. Some she doesn’t. All of them carefully selected for the same reason. They see the threat coming…and don’t run from it.

CROSS was meant to be the solution.
Instead, it becomes the target.

As the threat closes in and trust fractures under pressure, one thing becomes clear. Someone powerful has already decided CROSS won’t survive its first day.

Welcome to Winter’s Cross, the prequel to the next era of the famous Winter Black series by Mary Stone—where the team that will change everything is nearly destroyed before it ever gets the chance.