Black Widow: Bad Blood

by Lindsay Smith, Margaret Dunlap, L. L. McKinney, Mikki Kendall, Taylor Stevens

Overview

Super-heroic spies must unravel a conspiracy—and save the world—in this original Marvel adventure.
 
Before Natasha Romanoff was an Avenger, she was a Russian spy and assassin, genetically altered by Soviet Union–era scientists to become a super soldier. But someone has stolen a sample of her blood—and the blood of James “Bucky” Barnes, the operative known as the Winter Soldier, another human weapon developed in a Russian laboratory.
 
Whoever took their blood possesses the key to recreating the formula flowing through Natasha and Bucky’s veins—the formula that enhanced their physiology to superhuman levels. Now, the Black Widow and the Winter Soldier must work together to track down their mysterious enemy—even as their history as lab rats and conditioned agents brutally trained in Russia’s notorious Red Room continues to haunt them . . .
 
Black Widow: Bad Blood is a collaborative novel by Lindsay Smith, Margaret Dunlap, Mikki Kendall, L.L. McKinney, and Taylor Stevens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504093026
Publisher:	Open Road Media
Publication date:	04/16/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	378,728
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Lindsay Smith is the author of the Sekret series and other novels for young adults. She writes for Serial Box’s Marvel’s Black Widow, Orphan Black: The Next Chapter, and The Witch Who Came in from the Cold. Her comics and short stories have appeared on Tor.com and in the anthologies Shout Out!, an LGBTQ YA anthology, A Tyranny of Petticoats, Toil & Trouble, and That Way Madness Lies. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and dog, where she works in cybersecurity. You can follow Lindsay Smith on Twitter and Instagram @LindsaySmithDC.

Margaret Dunlap is the author of more than a dozen short stories and novelettes appearing in Uncanny, Shimmer, and the Sunday Morning Transport, and is part of the Locus Award–nominated team behind Bookburners. She also writes for television where her credits include cult-favorite The Middleman, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and the Emmy Award–winning Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Dunlap lives in Los Angeles, and can be reached at www.margaretdunlap.com and on Twitter @spyscribe.

Mikki Kendall is a writer and a diversity consultant. She has appeared on the BBC, NPR, the Daily Show, PBS, Good Morning America, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, WBEZ, and Showtime, discussing race, feminism, police violence, technology, and pop culture at institutions and universities across the country. She is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Hood Feminism which received a Chicago Review of Books Award and was named a best book of the year by BBC, Bustle, and Time. Kendall is also the author of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists, a graphic novel illustrated by A. D’Amico. Her essays can be found at Time, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Essence, Vogue, the Boston Globe, NBC, and a host of other publications.

L.L. McKinney is a writer, a poet, and an active member of the kid-lit community. She was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans of 2020. She’s an advocate for equality and inclusion in publishing, the co-founder of Juneteenth Book Fest, and the creator of the hashtags #PublishingPaidMe and #WhatWOCWritersHear. McKinney is the author of A Blade So Black, A Dream So Dark, and A Crown So Cursed.

Taylor Stevens is a critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning, New York Times–bestselling author of international thrillers. Her books, known for high-octane plots populated with fascinating characters in vivid boots-on-the-ground settings, have been published in more than twenty languages. The Informationist, first in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series has also been optioned for film by James Cameron.