Tan­gled Threads – Ele­men­tal Assas­sin #4 (April 26, 2011)

I’d rather face a dozen lethal assas­sins any night than deal with some­thing as tricky, con­vo­luted, and frag­ile as my feel­ings. But here I am. Gin Blanco, the semi-retired assas­sin known as the Spi­der. Hov­er­ing out­side sexy busi­ness­man Owen Grayson’s front door like a ner­vous teenage girl. One thing I like about Owen: he doesn’t shy away from my past—or my present. And right now I have a bull’s-eye on my fore­head. Cold-blooded Fire ele­men­tal Mab Mon­roe has hired one of the smartest assas­sins in the busi­ness to trap me. Elek­tra LaFleur is skilled and effi­cient, with deadly elec­tri­cal ele­men­tal magic as potent as my own Ice and Stone pow­ers. Which means there’s a fifty-fifty chance one of us won’t sur­vive this bat­tle. I intend to kill LaFleur—or die trying—because Mab wants the assas­sin to take out my baby sis­ter, Detec­tive Bria Coolidge, too. The only prob­lem is, Bria has no idea I’m her long-lost sib­ling … or that I’m the mur­derer she’s been chas­ing through Ash­land for weeks. And what Bria doesn’t know just might get us both dead …

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Venom – Ele­men­tal Assas­sin #3 (Sept. 28, 2010)

It’s hard to be a badass assas­sin when a giant is beat­ing the crap out of you. Luck­ily, I never let pride get in the way of my work. My cur­rent mis­sion is per­sonal: anni­hi­late Mab Mon­roe, the Fire ele­men­tal who mur­dered my fam­ily. Which means pro­tect­ing my iden­tity, even if I have to con­ceal my pow­er­ful Stone and Ice magic when I need it most. To the pub­lic, I’m Gin Blanco, owner of Ashland’s best bar­be­cue joint. To my friends, I’m the Spi­der, retired assas­sin. I still do favors on the side. Like rid­ding a vam­pire friend of her over­sized stalker—Mab’s right-hand goon who almost got me dead with his mas­sive fists. At least irre­sistible Owen Grayson is on my side. The man knows too much about me, but I’ll take my chances. Then there’s Detec­tive Bria Coolidge, one of Ashland’s finest. Until recently, I thought my baby sis­ter was dead. She prob­a­bly thinks the same about me. Lit­tle does she know, I’m a cold-blooded killer … who is about to save her life.

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Web of Lies – Ele­men­tal Assas­sin #2 (June 2010)

Curios­ity is def­i­nitely going to get me dead one of these days. Prob­a­bly real soon.

I’m Gin Blanco. You might know me as the Spi­der, the most feared assas­sin in the South. I’m retired now, but trou­ble still has a way of find­ing me. Like the other day when two punks tried to rob my bar­be­cue joint, the Pork Pit. Then there was the bar­rage of gun­fire on the restau­rant. Only, for once, those kill shots weren’t aimed at me. They were meant for Vio­let Fox. Ever since I agreed to help Vio­let and her grand­fa­ther pro­tect their prop­erty from an evil coal-mining tycoon, I’m begin­ning to won­der if I’m really retired.

So is Detec­tive Dono­van Caine. The only hon­est cop in ash­land is hav­ing a real hard time rec­on­cil­ing his attrac­tion to me with  his Boy Scount men­tal­ity. And I can barely keep my hands off his sexy body. What can I say? I’m a Stone elemental—with a lit­tle Ice magic thrown in—but my heart isn’t made of solid rock. Luck­ily, Gin Blanco always gets her man … dead or alive.

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Spider’s Bite – Ele­men­tal Assas­sin #1 (Feb­ru­ary 2010)

My name is Gin, and I kill people.

They call me the Spi­der. I’m the most feared assas­sin in the South—when I’m not busy at the Pork Pit cook­ing up the best bar­be­cue in Ash­land. As a Stone ele­men­tal, I can hear every­thing from the whis­pers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibra­tions of the soar­ing Appalachian Moun­tains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for mak­ing the occa­sional knife. But I don’t use my pow­ers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it pro­fes­sional pride.

Now that a ruth­less Air ele­men­tal has double-crossed me and killed my han­dler, I’m out for revenge. And I’ll exter­mi­nate any­one who gets in my way—good or bad. I may look hot, but I’m still one of the bad guys. Which is why I’m in trou­ble, since irre­sistibly rugged Detec­tive Dono­van Caine has agreed to help me. The last thing this cold­hearted killer needs when I’m bat­tling a magic more pow­er­ful than my own is a sexy dis­trac­tion … espe­cially when Dono­van wants me dead just as much as the enemy.

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Praise for the Ele­men­tal Assas­sin Series

Jinx – Big­time #3 – (2008)

She never wanted to be a super­hero. Too much dan­ger. Too much spandex…

Bella Bulluci’s big pas­sion is the arts. Her big pain is being born into a fam­ily of super­heroes. Of course, Bella might feel dif­fer­ently if her own super­power was one she could con­trol – or at least get some use out of. Instead, her power is one of capri­cious luck – super­charged telekine­sis. In other words, sta­tic elec­tric­ity. Bella knows that’s not a power – just a jinx.

Dur­ing a gala fundraiser for the local art museum, Bella comes upon two things no Big­time super­girl should be with­out: an ubervil­lain of her very own who plans to steal a price­less gem; and a dash­ing – if slightly shady – stranger named Debonair. He may have a rep­u­ta­tion as a noto­ri­ous play­boy, but the real sparks are going to come from Bella, who’s finally going to learn just how well love and dan­ger can go together…

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Hot Mama – Big­time #2 (2007)

She can melt steel – and men’s hearts…

By day, Fiona Fine is a suc­cess­ful cou­ture designer, cater­ing to the high soci­ety play­ers of Big­time, New York. By night, she’s Fiera, a super­strong super­hero who can cre­ate and manip­u­late fire with her bare hands. Fiera, along with the other mem­bers of the heroic Fear­less Five, make life mis­er­able for the ubervil­lains who want to take over the city.

But Fiona’s per­sonal life isn’t so fine. She still misses her fiancé, who was killed by ubervil­lains a year ago. But men admire Fiona’s smok­ing assets, and she decides to get back in the dat­ing game – espe­cially after she meets Johnny Bul­luci. But this noto­ri­ous play­boy has plenty of secrets to go along with his sexy smile. And, with two new ubervil­lains in town who are intent on rais­ing hell, Fiona’s love life might just crash and burn…

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Karma Girl – Big­time #1 (2007)

Some­one has to pay for what hap­pened to Car­men Cole…

Big­time, New York is not big enough for both Car­men Cole and the super­heroes and ubervil­lains who walk its streets. An intre­pid reporter, Carmen’s ded­i­cated her life to unmask­ing the span­dex wear­ers, all because her fiancé turned out to be a super­hero, and a cheat­ing one at that – sleep­ing with none other than his nubile nemesis.

Expos­ing the true iden­ti­ties of the nation’s caped cru­saders and their arch­en­e­mies has cat­a­pulted Car­men from her sleep south­ern home­town to the front pages of one of the country’s biggest news­pa­pers, The Exposé. Hob­nob­bing with mod­eliz­ing mil­lion­aires and fam­ished fash­ion­istas is all in a day’s work for the woman hot on the trail of the Fear­less Five and Ter­ri­ble Triad. But when Car­men gets the scoop of her career, her life comes crash­ing down around her. And even Bigtime’s sex­i­est super­hero, Striker, may not be able to save her …

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Cheers for the Big­time books

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