Dealing in Death
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Ethan Blade?assassin extraordinaire, cold-blooded killer, heartless monster, and . . . retiree?
I've spent my whole life dealing in death, efficiently eliminating targets while fighting to preserve a sense of self and morality, to avoid becoming as detached and ruthless as my siblings. I thought I had succeeded. Then I met Jack Reardon?contrary, handsome, forgiving, and far too good for the likes of me?and my life was tipped upside down. When he asked me to move in with him, he didn't specify that I had to quit my job, but I wanted to?for myself, not for him. I should have known it wouldn't be that easy.
My old instincts?"Ethan Blade"?are soon tempted out of retirement by a job offer I can't afford to refuse and by an old hook-up of Jack's he'd be a fool to refuse. While falling prey to my own temptation, Jack struggles with his. Which is precisely when the true danger exposes itself?one of my siblings with no such sense of self or morality. Only pain. And he is prepared to rain it down on me and Jack, unless I can square the Ethan Blade I want to be with the one I need to be, in time to save us both
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L.J. Hayward has been telling stories for most of her life. Granted, a good deal of them have been of the tall variety, but who's counting? Parents and teachers notwithstanding, of course. These days, the vast majority of her story telling has been in an honest attempt to create fun and exciting ways of entertaining others (and making money).
As such, she is still a mad (always provoked!) scientist in a dungeon laboratory (it has no windows. Seriously, the zombie apocalypse could be going on outside and she'd have nary a clue) who, on the rare occasions she emerges into the light, does so under extreme protest and with the potential hazard of bursting into flames under the southeast Queensland sun.
