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Sabina Kane novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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In a world where being of mixed-blood is a major liability, half-mage, half-vampire Sabina Kane is an assassin. Her latest mission threatens the fragile peace between the vampire and mage races, and Sabina must figure out which side she's on.
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Demonica volume 5
Language
English
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When she unwittingly creates a lethal new werewolf virus that incites a wave of panic and violence, Sinead Donnelly, the only female Seminus demon ever born, is hunted by half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall, to whom she is bound by blood.
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Flesh and fire novels volume 1
Language
English
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Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel's future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera's real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania, she's not the well protected Maiden, but an assassin with one mission,...
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"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon - a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption - now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling...
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"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
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Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful wraith, a shadow who slips between worlds, is ordered by her mastor, the Blood Lord Lucius, to kill Simon DuCaine, a powerful sunmage who has promised to set her free, she must choose between trust, loyalty, the shadows and the light.
10) Spider's trap
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Series
Elemental Assassin volume 13
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Relying on her Ice and Stone magic to survive her new position, the queen of Ashland's underworld is forced to play a deadly game with killers, crooks and thieves, in which she discovers that her greatest superpower of all is her ability to keep secrets.
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Flesh and fire novels volume 3
Language
English
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After a startling betrayal ends with both Sera and the dangerously seductive ruler of the Shadowlands she has fallen madly in love with being held captive by the false King of the Gods, there is only one thing that can free Nyktos and prevent the forces of the Shadowlands from invading Dalos and igniting a War of Primals. Convincing Kolis won't be easy, though - not even with a lifetime of training. While his most favored Revenant is insistent that...
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Series
Elemental Assassin volume 12
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After unfortunate "coincidences" befall her friends, Gin Blanco, aka the Spider, discovers that she has a new enemy, the mysteriously named M. M. Monroe, who, trying to get her framed for murder, has a master plan that will take more than her powerful Ice and Stone magic to stop.
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Series
Elemental Assassin volume 14
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When her foster brother's suddenly not-dead relative comes back into the picture, Gin Blanco, who wields potent Ice and Stone elemental magic, finds herself on the outside looking in until she discovers that this sudden interloper is planning something that could destroy them all.
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Series
Killing Eve novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books/LIittle, Brown
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
17) Murdergram
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Publisher
Melodrama Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Four broke girlfriends go into a Long Island church looking for a job. Four trained assassins come out. The Cristál Clique is born when these young killers are immersed in the intense underworld of murder-for-hire. But with youth comes naiveté. When heartache, betrayal, and revenge lurk behind every door, these Brooklyn girls must remain on point if they want to stay alive"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Elemental Assassin volume 8
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When assassin Gin Blanco, a.k.a. the Spider, is robbed and taken hostage at gunpoint during the biggest gala event of the summer at Ashland's fanciest art museum, she is more than happy to show these unlucky thieves that red is her favorite color.
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Nadia Stafford duology volume 3
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In Wild Justice, Nadia is confronted with her most difficult task to date: going after the man who killed her cousin Amy twenty years prior. But when it turns out that someone else has already taken justice into their own hands, she is drawn into a complex situation where everything she knows and loves is thrown into the path of danger. Nadia is forced to take matters into her own hands, ultimately requiring her to confront her darkest secrets--and...
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Series
Serpent Gates volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does. She will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. On the day of her foretold death, however, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Csorwe leaves her home, her destiny, and her god to become the wizard's loyal sword-hand -- stealing, spying, and killing to help him reclaim his seat of power in the homeland from which he was exiled. But...
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