The Endings Series: Book 3
Publication Date: September 5, 2023
Still struggling towards the light, this time the assignment is to save, not kill.
Taking lives has taken its toll. Her moral justifications have faltered. Do any of the 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, not only has she not killed him, she’s wondering who might want him dead.
She procrastinates long enough that a vibe grows between them. At the same time, she learns that he’s passionate about wild horses and has been fighting a losing political battle to save the mustangs that live on protected land near his property. He’s even received death threats from those who oppose him.
She finds herself trying to protect the man she was sent to kill, following a trail that leads from the desert, to the Phoenix cognoscenti, to the highest offices in Washington, DC. Along the way she encounters kidnappers and killers, horse thieves and even human traffickers. Hopefully she can figure out who ordered the hit before they hire someone else to execute the assignment.
Paid assassins are supposed to carry out their assignments without asking questions. However, in the new psychological thriller by Linda L. Richards, the unnamed female hired killer finds herself breaking the rules.
In Dead West, the story is told in first person by the unnamed woman. From the beginning, it is evident that she is a highly complex character. It’s a bit unnerving to have an unnamed protagonist, but when she assumes an identity, the impact is somewhat ironic.
Her target is Cameron Walker, a divorced rancher and protector of wild horses. From the moment they meet, she senses something different about this man.
In fact, she soon finds herself defending him against powerful enemies seeking to silence his activism. It’s a new position for someone always used to calling the shots.
As the main character evolves, the author entices readers to cheer her on, even as she gets caught up in the backlash of choosing the wrong identity.
Dead West packs a powerful punch as a female hired killer finds herself trying to shift the target from the original mark to the person who initiated the hit, which is not how paid assassins are supposed to operate.
Linda L. Richards is the award-winning author of over a dozen books. The founder and publisher of January Magazine and a national board member of Sisters in Crime, she is best known for her strong female protagonists in the thriller genre. Richards is from Vancouver, Canada and currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona. Richards is an accomplished horsewoman and an avid tennis player. She enjoys yoga, hiking, cooking and playing guitar, though not at the same time.
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Woohoo, great review! I can’t wait to read this series!
Sounds fantastic