I’ve posted the first chapter of Black Widow, Elemental Assassin #12, on my website.

You can read the first chapter here. Scroll down and click on the Read Excerpt tab.

Note: The chapter does have spoilers for other books in the series, including Poison Promise, book #11. So if you don’t want to be spoiled, you might want to skip reading the chapter.

Black Widow will be released on Nov. 25 in print, e-book, and audio editions through all the usual book retailers, including the following:

Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Books-A-Million / IndieBound / iTunes / Kobo

The audiobook will be available through Audible, and the awesome Lauren Fortgang is once again be the narrator.

And here is the back cover copy for Black Widow:

There’s nothing worse than a cruel, cunning enemy with time to kill—and my murder to plan.

With wicked Fire elemental Mab Monroe long gone, you’d think I could finally catch a break. But someone’s always trying to take me down, either as Gin Blanco or my assassin alter-ago. Now along comes the Spider’s new arch-nemesis, the mysteriously named M. M. Monroe, who is gleefully working overtime to trap me in a sticky web of deceit.

The thing is, I’m not the only target. I can see through the tangled threads enough to know that every bit of bad luck my friends have been having lately is no accident—and that each unfortunate “coincidence” is just one more arrow drawing ever closer to hitting the real bulls-eye. Though new to Ashland, this M. M. Monroe is no stranger to irony, trying to get me, an assassin, framed for murder. Yet, as my enemy’s master plan is slowly revealed, I have a sinking feeling that it will take more than my powerful Ice and Stone magic to stop my whole life from going up in flames.

Hope that everyone enjoys the excerpt. Happy reading!

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