Shadows Know Blood
Description
They were never supposed to feel. Now they're the only ones who can't afford not to.
Former Yakuza enforcer Akira Shimosawa thought he buried his past when he joined STARR, a covert paramilitary group operating in the shadows of international law. Mallory Sullivan, a sharp-minded former CIA profiler with a body count and a conscience, was never supposed to cross paths with him again. But when Ashfall's legacy mutates into something worse, STARR's newest unit, Ghost Division, is thrown into a mission that quickly becomes personal.
What begins as infiltration spirals into betrayal. Operatives vanish. Someone inside the system starts rewriting the rules of loyalty, turning human choice into a clean, convincing lie. And the only way to stop a war built on replacement is to burn it from the inside out.
As Akira and Mallory move through global cities and ghost networks, each step draws them deeper into a conspiracy shaped by someone from Akira's past, the woman who trained him to feel nothing at all.
In a world where fear is erased, desire becomes dangerous, and love becomes the last rebellion.
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Born and raised in upstate New York, with a brief and very influential stint living in Great Britain, Beth A. Freely now calls Texas her home.
With more than 14 years of writing experience as a copywriter and published author, she holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Media Communication with a minor in Marketing and a master's degree in English and Creative Writing.
In 2003, after the prodding of some friends, she published some of her fanfiction online. She won awards for it and decided to write her first full-length novel. She is currently in the process of rewriting the novel in the hopes of publishing it in 2021.
In 2005, Beth was the first-place winner of the 2005 Arche Books Publishing Novel Writing Contest, Women's Fiction with her novel Behind the Eyes of Dorian Gray.
The Legend of Captain St. Pierre, her second novel, was written with her best friend, Mariam, and is the first book in a planned trilogy.
The Loch is her third novel.
Beyond The Steps Of Stone is the first of a planned trilogy.
She is the owner of The Muses Funhouse.
