Disgraced ex-cop Nadia Stafford now makes her living as a
hitman for the mob. Known to her underworld contacts as
Dee, Nadia takes her orders from a small New York crime
family and doesn't lose a wink of sleep over it. She has
her standards; she knows what her conscience will and will
not allow. When the job is over and Dee turns back into
Nadia, she runs a wilderness lodge in Canada. Dee's hits
keep Nadia's lodge going, but it's the lodge that keeps
Nadia going...and sane.
When one of Nadia's employees goes missing, she is
immediately alarmed. She has a small staff and is fiercely
protective of them. The woman, a teenage unwed mother, is
considered "white trash" by the locals. Law enforcement
thinks she has taken the baby and run off. When Nadia tries
to point out that the girl's disappearance doesn't make any
sense and needs to be looked into, her protests fall on
deaf ears. Nadia realizes if there is to be an
investigation, she needs to do it herself. So with the help
of her mentor, Jack, she gets the ball rolling. Their
investigation leads them straight into suburbia and what
they stumble onto in the world of mini-vans and carefully
manicured lawns turns the stomachs of even the most
seasoned hitmen.
When Bantam advertises this as a thriller they aren't lying...
or even exaggerating. Nadia's world is always a thrill ride
and a half. Kelley Armstrong is top-notch, as usual,
as she takes her readers out of the Otherworld and into the
underworld.
The author of the acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series
returns with her latest novel featuring an exciting heroine
with a lethal hidden talent. This time she’s hot on the
trail of a young woman no one else cares about—and a killer
who’s bound to strike again.
Nadia Stafford isn’t
your typical nature lodge owner. An ex-cop with a legal
code all her own, she’s known only as “Dee” to her current
employer: a New York crime family that pays her handsomely
to bump off traitors. But when Nadia discovers that a
troubled teenage employee and her baby have vanished in the
Canadian woods, the memory of a past loss comes back with a
vengeance and her old instincts go into
overdrive.
With her enigmatic mentor, Jack, covering
her back, Nadia unearths sinister clues that point to an
increasingly darker and deadlier mystery. Now, with her
obsession over the case deepening, the only way Nadia can
right the wrongs of the present is to face her own painful
ghosts—and either bury them for good, or die trying.
Because in her book everyone deserves a chance. And
everyone deserves justice.
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