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She is a woman of a thousand faces, an assassin who could be anyone, anywhere. The Trinidad contract was supposed to be simple: to make a living man become a dead man. When the job goes bad under the watchful eye of a bank security camera, there is nowhere for agent MX-401, known as Reaper, to hide from the fearsome local warlords, the Laventille Killers. Her employers, the Barbarians, send her to Barbados, the next island over, barely two hundred...

After years of being trained as a merciless killer, a woman is offered the chance to become a sleeper agent for ten years in order to have a chance at a normal life. Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service, and she jumps at the chance for a normal life. But soon enough, secrets from her past destroy everything...

A brutal fable about a pair of teenage assassins who believe they've landed a straightforward assignment but soon find themselves thrown off their game when their latest target isn't who they expected.

Set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything--not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side--and history has appeared on her doorstep...

"J.D. Rhoades writes action as well as anybody in the business, and bail bondsman Jack Keller is a winner." ?C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett seriesJack Kellers violent past is very much with him these days, despite his efforts to leave it behind. Hes back in rural North Carolina, looking for steady work, and trying to establish a relationship with Francis, the son he never knew. But the boys heard too much about Keller,...

"She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will they end a war . . . or ignite one? "A thrilling tale of magic and murder, intrigue and betrayal."—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher The gorgeous first edition hardcover of To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods will feature a poster, color endpapers, a custom-stamped case, and a foil jacket! Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter...

"The rules of undercover work are simple: Never fall for your mark. Never let down your guard. Never give your heart away. Lion shifter and Third Shift co-founder Elijah Richter is on a mission: seduce arms dealer Mirko Aston's gorgeous girlfriend, use her as an entry point to the organization, and discover what the global terrorist is planning. It should be simple. Then he meets Meghna Saxena-Saunders—influencer, celebutante, ex-wife to...

"Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Viet Nam "advising" the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking...

Eve, a deskbound MI5 security officer who dreams of being a spy, becomes obsessed with a talented, young assassin. Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse....

Eve, a deskbound MI5 agent who is recruited for MI6, becomes obsessed with a talented, young assassin.