Linda Richards

How far can a profound personal loss drive someone toward darkness? What would it take for you to kill someone for money? And if you did, who - or what - would you have become? These are the questions one woman faces when she loses everyone she loves and everything she has. When the opportunity...

A shattered life. A killer for hire. Can she stop? Her assignments were always to kill someone. That's what a hitman—or hitwoman—is paid to do—and that is what she does. Then comes a surprise assignment—keep someone alive! She is hired to protect Virginia Martin, the stunning and...

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...

As the lawlessness of Prohibition pushes against the desperation of the Depression, there are two ways to make a living in Los Angeles: join the criminals or collar them. Kitty Pangborn has chosen the crime-fighters, becoming secretary to Dexter J. Theroux, one of the hard-drinking...

Her life is over . . . yet somehow she carries on. After attempting to sever all ties to her life as a hired assassin, a woman struggles to understand who she has become. She knows she doesn't want to kill again—but it proves to be a difficult habit to break, particularly in a world where...