Snared Elemental Assassin #16
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If you don’t know Gin “the Spider” Blanco, you don’t know dangerous female heroines.
Irony 101—The Spider herself snared in someone else’s web…
Another week, another few clues trickling in about the Circle, the mysterious group that supposedly runs the city’s underworld. Gathering intel on my hidden enemies is a painstaking process, but a more immediate mystery has popped up on my radar: a missing girl.
My search for the girl begins on the mean streets of Ashland, but with all the killers and crooks in this city, I’m not holding out much hope that she’s still alive.
A series of clues leads me down an increasingly dark, dangerous path, and I realize that the missing girl is really just the first thread in this web of evil. As an assassin, I’m used to facing down the worst of the worst, but nothing prepares me for this new, terrifying enemy—one who strikes from the shadows and is determined to make me the next victim.
Excerpt:
I
stopped in front of a photo of Maria Rivera, a beautiful woman with
long, golden hair, brown eyes, and red lips. In the photo, she was
smiling and standing in between Damian and his father, Richard Rivera,
with a dour-looking Bruce Porter hovering behind them in the distance. I
raised my phone and snapped a shot of the picture—
“You’ve been in there a while now,” Finn’s voice sounded in my ear. “Does that mean you’ve finally found something good?”
“No,” I muttered. “Just a lot of liquor, antiques, and photos.”
“What kind of liquor?” Finn chirped with obvious interest. “Anything I would drink?”
I
slid my phone into my jacket pocket and eyed the rows of gleaming
bottles behind the bar. “Oh, I think that you would drink it all,
especially since Rivera’s tastes are even more expensive than yours.
Why, you would cackle with glee if you could see all the spirits he has
in here.”
“Well,
why don’t you bring me a bottle or two so I can cackle in person?” Finn
chirped again. “I might as well get something from standing out here in
the cold.”
Even
though he was in the woods outside and couldn’t see me, I still rolled
my eyes. “I came here for information on the Circle. Not to pilfer
daddy’s booze like some naughty teenager.”
“You say potato, I say opportunity.”
I
started to respond when a faint creak sounded in the hallway outside,
as though someone had stepped on a floorboard. I froze. The creak came
again, louder and closer this time, and it was followed by something
far, far worse—the distinctive snick of a key sliding in a lock.
“Let’s have a drink,” a faint, muffled voice said.
Someone was outside the office—and he was about to come in.
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Jennifer writes the Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series. Snared, book #16, will be released on April 25.
Jennifer also writes the Mythos Academy young adult urban fantasy series. She is also the author of the Black Blade young adult urban fantasy series and the Bigtime paranormal romance series.
For more information on Jennifer and her books, visit www.jenniferestep.com or follow Jennifer on Facebook, Goodreads, and Twitter.
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