Dead West: A Novel

Rule #1 of being a hired killer: never get to know your target . . . and definitely don' t fall in love with them

Taking lives has taken its toll. Her moral justifications have faltered. Do any of the people she has killed- some of them heinous, but all of them human- deserve to die?

Her next target is Cameron Walker, a rancher in Arizona. When she arrives at his remote desert estate to carry out her orders, she discovers that he is a kind and beautiful man. After a lengthy tour of the ranch,...