Simon Pulse
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
Featuring: Wyatt; Patsy
336 pages ISBN: 1481423398 EAN: 9781481423397 Kindle: B00KU4O14C Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling dystopian thriller.
No one reads the fine print.
The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that we were bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card application. Now, after a swift and silent takeover that leaves 9-1-1 calls going through to Valor voicemail, theyβre unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country.
Patsy didnβt have much of a choice. When the suits showed up at her house threatening to kill her mother then and there for outstanding debt unless Patsy agreed to be an indentured assassin, what was she supposed to do? Let her own mother die?
Patsy is forced to take on a five-day mission to complete a hit list of ten names. Each name on Patsyβs list has only three choices: pay the debt on the spot, agree to work as a bounty hunter, or die. And Patsy has to kill them personally, or else her mom takes a bullet of her own. Since yarn bombing is the only anarchy in Patsyβs past, sheβs horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that most of the ten people on her list arenβt strangers. Things get even more complicated when a moment of mercy lands her with a sidekick: a hot rich kid named Wyatt whose brother is the last name on Patsyβs list. The two share an intense chemistry even as every tick of the clock draws them closer to an impossible choice.
Delilah S. Dawson offers an absorbing, frightening glimpse at a reality just steps away from oursβa taut, suspenseful thriller that absolutely mesmerizes from start to finish.
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