Ahoy, lovely readers!
A new year means a new weekly feature! I am happy
to kick off this wonderful feature with a great YA romantic thriller. Without
further ado, I give you Pema Donyo’s The
Innocent Assassins!
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There are three rules to staying an assassin at the corporation of
Covert Operatives: (1) your parents must be deceased, (2) your contracts must
remain confidential, and (3) you must be under the age of eighteen.
After a murder mission goes awry a month before her eighteenth birthday, Covert Operatives assassin Jane Lu finds herself caught by the federal government and forced to spy for the CIA while remaining in Covert Operatives. Once her spying mission is over she will be allowed to live a civilian life without facing criminal consequences, a life she’s only dreamed of having.
As Jane leaks information to the CIA, she uncovers secrets with enough power to both destroy Covert Operatives and her own boyfriend, Adrian King, who’s next in line to be CEO of the company. When her identity as a double agent for the CIA is discovered within Covert Operatives, she must decide where her allegiance, and her heart, truly lies.
After a murder mission goes awry a month before her eighteenth birthday, Covert Operatives assassin Jane Lu finds herself caught by the federal government and forced to spy for the CIA while remaining in Covert Operatives. Once her spying mission is over she will be allowed to live a civilian life without facing criminal consequences, a life she’s only dreamed of having.
As Jane leaks information to the CIA, she uncovers secrets with enough power to both destroy Covert Operatives and her own boyfriend, Adrian King, who’s next in line to be CEO of the company. When her identity as a double agent for the CIA is discovered within Covert Operatives, she must decide where her allegiance, and her heart, truly lies.
Juvenile spies, a conflicted heroine, and a
potentially deadly romance? What’s not to love! But you know I’m not going to
leave you fully convinced until I provide an excerpt:
Rough cloth slid
across my face and pulled down against my shoulders. I screamed. Someone yanked
my wrists behind my back and tied them together with coarse rope. Another set
of hands bound my legs. How many were there?
I struggled to make
contact with a body, swerving from side to side with wild abandon in spite of
my inability to see anything. What worried me most weren’t the people trapping
my body or the sudden needle injected into my neck which slowed my thoughts and
faded away my consciousness.
It was the voice next
to my ear—cold, hard, and determined.
“You’re right on
time,” Adrian whispered.
****
Freezing ice water snapped my eyes open.
Freezing ice water snapped my eyes open.
I blinked away the
unconscious haze, my hair and face dripping from the unwelcome drench. The
first thing I noticed was the boardroom, similar to the ones I negotiated
contracts in. But there was no contract here—only a long, empty rectangular
table and looming executives and agents on either side.
In front of me stood
Adrian, his expression unreadable as he studied me.
“I tried to stop
you.” His voice reminded me of the cold water dripping from my clothes. “I
warned you.”
“By hiring assassins
to scare me? I thought you knew me better. Nothing scares me.”
“Death should.”
“You know I never
wanted to be…” I swallowed hard. “This.”
“I changed Covert
Operatives for you.” Emotion leaked into his voice, brimming with frustration.
“I tried to give you what you wanted.”
“And force others
against their will to work for CO their entire life?” I spat. “I think not.”
“When did you switch
sides?”
“When I was arrested,
Adrian. It was after our mission went wrong. The CIA gave me a choice. Go to
prison and face the death sentence or work for them.”
He gritted his teeth.
“The CIA? You’re afraid of the CIA? You know as well as I do CO can keep you
away from them. I can keep you away from them.”
I glared at him. “And
hide away for the rest of my life?”
His shoulders
stiffened. “No one would be hiding.”
“I want a life
removed from murder. The CO job was always temporary! It was never what I
wanted to do for the rest of my life.” I averted my gaze. “Don’t you know
there’s only one way this can possibly end? Kill me or let me go.”
Now tell me you’re not going to close this blog
and immediately start reading The
Innocent Assassins.
Wait, don’t go!!! Let me at least tell you about
our author and give you the buy links first!
Pema Donyo is a coffee-fueled college student by day and a creative
writer by night. She currently lives in sunny Southern California, where any
temperature less than 70 degrees is freezing and flip-flops never go out of
season. As a sophomore at Claremont McKenna, she's still working on mastering
that delicate balance between finishing homework, meeting publisher deadlines,
and... college.
Pema’s debut novel, The Innocent Assassins, is a thriller/romantic
suspense published by Astraea Press. Her second novel One Last Letter is a
western historical romance published by Crimson Romance.
You can contact Pema at the following links:
Website: pemadonyo.wordpress.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pemadonyo
And you can buy The Innocent Assassins at the following links:
Amazon (Kindle):http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L9EWUQI
Barnes & Noble (Nook): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/2940149810512
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/451557
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-innocent-assassins
Barnes & Noble (Nook): http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/2940149810512
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/451557
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-innocent-assassins
You can now finish the first week of the year with a great read! Get to it!
And, as always, until next time, keep readin’ and
dreamin’!
-Fred
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