''Original, dark, and gritty, with enough humanity to keep you caring about its antiheroes and enough suspense to keep you turning the pages.'' - CodyMcFadyen, author of Shadow Man

To the outside world Nadia Stafford is a smart, good-looking, law-abiding citizen. Well, two out of three's not bad...

An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, Nadia has a secret life as a world-class assassin. She works only for one New York crime family, who pay her handsomely to bump off traitors. But when a troubled teenager and her baby vanish in the woods near her home, Nadia's old detective instincts - and the memory of a past loss - compel her to investigate.

With her enigmatic mentor Jack to support her, Nadia unearths sinister clues that point to an increasingly dark and deadly mystery. As her obsession over the case deepens, Nadia realises that the only way she can right the wrongs of the present is to face her own painful ghosts - or die trying. And so she sets off on the trail of a young woman no one else cares about - and a killer who is bound to strike again...

Book 2 in a gripping non-supernatural series from the author of Bitten and Industrial Magic

Books by Kelley Armstrong:

Women of the Otherworld series

Bitten

Stolen

Dime Store Magic

Industrial Magic

Haunted

Broken

No Humans Involved

Personal Demon

Living with the Dead

Frost Bitten

Walking the Witch

Spellbound

Thirteen

Nadia Stafford

Exit Strategy

Made to be Broken

Wild Justice

Rockton

City of the Lost

A Darkness Absolute

This Fallen Prey

Watcher in the Woods

Alone in the Wild

Darkest Powers

The Summoning

The Awakening

The Reckoning

Otherworld Tales

Men of the Otherworld

Tales of the Otherworld

Otherworld Nights

Otherworld Secrets

Otherworld Chills

Darkness Rising

The Gathering

The Calling

The Rising

Cainsville

Omens

Visions

Deceptions

Betrayals

Rituals