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Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884-1907

By: Devon Abbott Mihesuah

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Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884-1907

By: Devon Abbott Mihesuah

During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaults—usually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and pro-assimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation. Devon Abbott Mihesuah describes the brutal murder in 1884 of her own great-great-grandfather, Nationalist Charles Wilson, who was a Choctaw lighthorseman and U.S. deputy marshal. She then relates the killing spree of Progressives by Nationalist Silan Lewis ten years later. Mihesuah draws on a wide array of sources—even in the face of missing court records—to weave a spellbinding account of homicide and political intrigue. She painstakingly delineates a transformative period in Choctaw history to explore emerging gulfs between Choctaw citizens and address growing Indian resistance to white intrusions, federal policies, and the taking of tribal resources. The first book to fully describe this Choctaw factionalism, Choctaw Crime and Punishment is both a riveting narrative and an important analysis of tribal politics.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186038

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Haunted Chippewa Valley

By: Devon Bell

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Haunted Chippewa Valley

By: Devon Bell

Take a spine-chilling trip to Wisconsin and discover a world of ghosts and paranormal activity . . . photos included! The Chippewa Valley is nestled snugly in a vast tract of Wisconsin farmland that offered early settlers a secure place to settle into the American dream. But the valley also harbors a strange and sometimes confusing past. From the boisterous activity of the lumber boom to the lingering stillness of the Eau Claire Asylum, this northwestern corner of the Badger State is filled with tragic stories and tall tales. Cast off with the ghost ferries of Caryville or stand vigil in the small, secluded cemetery where the spirits of children come out to play, in this journey into the eerie history of the Chippewa Valley.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625840454

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9781625840455

Greenies Girl

By: Devon St Johns

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Greenies Girl

By: Devon St Johns

GREENIES"" are a secret shared by Cathy and her Father. Certainly not shared by her hidebound, exacting and domineering Mother. Cathy's personal journey in the tough, demanding male dominated industrial scene in the Detroit area to full, satisfying and comfortable adulthood plus her attraction to big Sam Carew will keep the reader's attention as will scene shifts from a Florida beach to Detroit to Northern Michigan ski hills. Also compelling are the intertwined stories of widowed Maggie and ""Shortstuff"", the best rock and roller around.Cathy, Sam, Maggie, Pete, Shortstuff and snothead B.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1622126785

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9781622126781

Flea in the Dark

By: Devon Stevens

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Flea in the Dark

By: Devon Stevens

Teresa just wants to spend the long weekend having fun with friends. But her parents stick her with taking care of her stupid little half-sister, Felicia—Flea. But Teresa refuses to let Flea ruin her weekend plans, so she drags Flea with her to the banks of the Rio Grande, where Teresa meets up with her friends to drink beer and smoke weed. In the midst of a lunar eclipse, painting the riverside blood red, Flea runs into the thick undergrowth of Albuquerque’s Bosque Trail. When Teresa goes to find her, she catches only a glimpse of Flea before she vanishes with La Llorona, the mythical child-stealing ghost. Frantic, Teresa entreats a witch to enable her to find her sister. To do so, she must travel to an alternate Albuquerque, where the past and present are one and madness reigns. Flea in the Dark marks the debut of Devon Stevens, who deftly incorporates elements of Southwestern folklore and Lovecraftian horror. This compelling modern fantasy explores the intricacies of a mixed-race family, the absurdity of discrimination based on appearance, and the difficulty in coming to terms with the past to discover a greater capacity to love.

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L.L. Press

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0999843265

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9780999843260

The Bull Within

A Story of Brotherhood, Growing Up, and Running.

By: Devon Kelly

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The Bull Within

A Story of Brotherhood, Growing Up, and Running.

By: Devon Kelly

In the spring of 2005 a group of men began a journey that lasted for a year and a half, covered thousands of miles, and would change their lives forever. Over the course of two seasons, the cross country team at Downers Grove South High School rose from obscurity to one of the most formidable teams in the state, capturing the hearts and minds of athletes around the state with their courageous effort. Together they would go on a fantastic ride, experiencing unprecedented success and enduring heart breaking failure. This is not just a sports story. This is a story about brotherhood and overcoming impossible odds to achieve greatness. Legends of the Fall tells a story of what is possible when people put their minds to a common goal. At the end of it all, the men of Downers South would be forever remembered as legends for their courage, fortitude, but, most of all, for how they inspired so many with their amazing story.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426965443

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9781426965449

Every Wine Tells a Story a Collection of the Most Memorable Bottles of 2010 to Warm the Wine Lover's Soul, as Told by 29 International Wine Experts

By: Tara Devon O'Leary

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Every Wine Tells a Story a Collection of the Most Memorable Bottles of 2010 to Warm the Wine Lover's Soul, as Told by 29 International Wine Experts

By: Tara Devon O'Leary

Join an eclectic group of leading wine experts from around the world, including sommeliers, winemakers, journalists, bloggers and merchants, as they share tales of the one wine from 2010 they found most impressive.Each story tells of one special wine and what made it stand out as the best wine experience of 2010. You'll also find out who the wine would be if it were a celebrity!Wine is much more than just another beverage - it evokes passion and emotion, curiosity and fascination. Let these experts from the UK to the USA, Israel to Australia inspire and encourage, enlighten and enthuse, inform and intrigue you to delve further into the exciting, ever-changing world of wine.Discover a unique range of handpicked wines, unlike any list you've seen before. This refreshing collection of personal wine experiences is sure to amuse and entertain and leave you thirsty for more!

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Lulu.com

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1446713989

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9781446713983

Every Wine Tells a Story - a collection of the most memorable, provocative and emotive wines as experienced by 39 international wine lovers

By: Tara Devon O'Leary

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Every Wine Tells a Story - a collection of the most memorable, provocative and emotive wines as experienced by 39 international wine lovers

By: Tara Devon O'Leary

Wine is much more than just another beverage - it evokes passion and emotion, curiosity and fascination. This second annual edition of Every Wine Tells a Story is brimming with entertaining personal anecdotes from a host of new wine lovers, and one or two familiar faces. Join this eclectic group of wine experts from around the world, including sommeliers, winemakers, journalists, bloggers and merchants, as they share tales of the one wine they found most impressive. Let these international connoisseurs inspire and encourage, enlighten and enthuse, inform and intrigue you to delve further into the exciting, ever-changing world of wine. Discover a unique range of handpicked wines, unlike any list you've seen before. This refreshing collection of personal wine experiences is sure to amuse and entertain and leave you thirsty for more!

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1470919907

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Castro Valley

By: Lucille Lorge,Robert Phelps,Devon Weston

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Castro Valley

By: Lucille Lorge,Robert Phelps,Devon Weston

An officer in the Mexican army bequeathed his name to the crescent-shaped basin once known as Castro's Valley. Driven to ruin by squatters, drought, and gambling debts, he sold a portion of his cattle ranch to Methodist minister Zachariah Hughes, who built a church and school in what is now Crow Canyon. The one-room, redwood school Hughes christened Eden Vale educated about 50 children until a group from the burgeoning town to the south, “Hayward's,” stole it by wagon in the dead of night. Undaunted, Castro Valley, delineated from its now friendly neighbors by hills, Lake Chabot, and an independent spirit, built and fully supported its own Redwood School. It has now developed into one of the most populous unincorporated areas in the United States.

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0738530670

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9780738530673

Cultivating the Rosebuds

The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

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Cultivating the Rosebuds

The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominational Cherokee Female Seminary was one of the most important schools in the history of American Indian education. Devon Mihesuah explores its curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy. Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association. 24 photos.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252066774

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Normans and Saxons

Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War

By: Ritchie Devon Watson

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Normans and Saxons

Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War

By: Ritchie Devon Watson

When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphant affirmation of southern chivalry, northerners as a confirmation of southern barbarity. Public opinion was similarly divided nearly three-and-a-half years later after abolitionist John Brown's raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with northerners crowning John Brown as a martyr to the cause of freedom as southerners excoriated him as a consciousness fanatic. These events opened American minds to the possibility that North and South might be incompatible societies, but some of Dixie's defenders were willing to go one step further -- to propose that northerners and southerners represented not just a "divided people" but two scientifically distinct races. In Normans and Saxons, Ritchie Watson, Jr., explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of these divisive events to justify secession and, eventually, the Civil War. This mythology cast southerners as descendants of the Normans of eleventh-century England and thus also of the Cavaliers of the seventeenth century, some of whom had come to the New World and populated the southern colonies. These Normans were opposed, in mythic terms, by Saxons -- Englishmen of German descent -- some of whose descendants made up the Puritans who settled New England and later fanned out to populate the rest of the North. The myth drew on nineteenth-century science and other sources to portray these as two separate, warring "races," the aristocratic and dashing Normans versus the common and venal Saxons. According to Watson, southern polemical writers employed this racial mythology as a justification of slavery, countering the northern argument that the South's peculiar institution had combined with its Norman racial composition to produce an arrogant and brutal land of oligarchs with a second-rate culture. Watson finds evidence for this argument in both prose and poetry, from the literary influence of Sir Walter Scott, De Bow's Review, and other antebellum southern magazines, to fiction by George Tucker, John Pendleton Kennedy, and William Alexander Caruthers and northern and southern poetry during the Civil War, especially in the works of Walt Whitman. Watson also traces the continuing impact of the Norman versus Saxon myth in "Lost Cause" thought and how the myth has affected ideas about southern sectionalism of today. Normans and Saxons provides a thorough analysis of the ways in which myth ultimately helped to convince Americans that regional differences over the issue of slavery were manifestations of deeper and more profound differences in racial temperament -- differences that made civil war inevitable.

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LSU Press

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0807134333

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So You Want to Write about American Indians?

A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

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So You Want to Write about American Indians?

A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars

By: Devon A. Mihesuah

So You Want to Write about American Indians? is the first of its kind an indispensable guide for anyone interested in writing and publishing a novel, memoir, collection of short stories, history, or ethnography involving the Indigenous peoples of the United States. In clear language illustrated with examples many from her own experiences Choctaw scholar and writer Devon Abbott Mihesuah explains the basic steps involved with writing about American Indians. So You Want to Write about American Indians? provides a concise overview of the different types of fiction and nonfiction books written about Natives and the common challenges and pitfalls encountered when writing each type of book. Mihesuah presents a list of ethical guidelines to follow when researching and writing about Natives, including the goals of the writer, stereotypes to avoid, and cultural issues to consider. She also offers helpful tips for developing ideas and researching effectively, submitting articles to journals, drafting effective book proposals, finding inspiration, contacting an editor, polishing a manuscript, preparing a persuasive résumé or curriculum vitae, coping with rejection, and negotiating a book contract.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803204744

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Magic for a Price

An Allie Beckstrom Novel

By: Devon Monk

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Magic for a Price

An Allie Beckstrom Novel

By: Devon Monk

For most of her life, Allison Beckstrom has used magic and accepted the heavy price it exacts. But now that all magic is poisoned, it’s no longer just using people—it’s killing them. With Portland about to descend into chaos, Allie needs to find a way to purify the wells of tainted magic beneath the city. But the only options left to her are grim: attempt to close down magic forever, or follow her father’s plan to set magic into the right hands—even though she’s learned to never trust his word. Now, Allie will have to make a choice and face the darkness of her own deepest fears, before time runs out for them all…

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Penguin

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1101597259

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9781101597255

After the Crumble

By: Devon Porter

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After the Crumble

By: Devon Porter

Our future has crumbled. In the late 2020s, the grid finally flickered out for the last time, succumbing to attacks from a newly formed Resistance, fuel scarcity, and general entropy. It is now the year 2037 and many have died, with the few that managed to escape death solely concerned with their daily survival. Gavin Collier is one of those lucky few, but survival alone isn’t enough for him anymore. Recognizing that the meaning of life didn't crumble along with the rest of the world, he embarks on a dangerous and personal journey for reasons that few can understand. After leaving his home for the first time in years, Gavin must commit murder in order to save his life, only surviving through good luck and sheer force of will. The series of events that follow will alter Gavin’s life forever. He finds true love for the first time, and when his love makes the journey to join Gavin at his family farm, the violence and evil of the outside world follows her there. Renewed by hope and the power of love, Gavin will do whatever it takes to protect his future wife and the remaining members of his beloved family, as the dangerous forces close in on his cherished farm and small community. Gavin's family had been surviving with little help from the outside world, but now they must come together with their neighbors to fight for their land and those they love. Personalities clash, lives are lost, and fear is inescapable. They all must struggle to keep their humanity in this new, brutal world. Gavin knows that they must prevail at all costs, and keep the flames of freedom and faith burning during one of humanity’s darkest times. Doing so is the only way to make life worth living, and worth something more than just survival.

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Prepper Press

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1939473209

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9781939473202

Multiplex CBT for Traumatized Multicultural Populations

Treating PTSD and Related Disorders

By: Devon E. Hinton

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Multiplex CBT for Traumatized Multicultural Populations

Treating PTSD and Related Disorders

By: Devon E. Hinton

A practical and accessible manual providing a culturally sensitive approach to the treatment of PTSD and trauma more generally.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009073397

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Why Me?

By: Devon Pennant

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Why Me?

By: Devon Pennant

A unique blend of themes... fantasy, adventure, romance, office politics... plus a likeable black hero, humour and the meaning of life (!) all make this debut novel thoroughly entertaining.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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190523757X

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9781905237579

The Soul Keepers

By: Devon Taylor

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The Soul Keepers

By: Devon Taylor

A fantastic high-stakes adventure on a ghost ship sailing forever into eternity, where every soul is (literally) worth fighting for—what's not to love? Devon Taylor weaves an endearing tale of friendship and loss with heart-stopping action and a whole lot of terrifying monsters. You'll root for Rhett and his fellow reapers through every twist and turn!" —Rin Chupeco, author of The Bone Witch and The Girl from the Well Death is just the beginning. After dying in a terrible car accident, Rhett awakens in the afterlife and is recruited to join the crew of the Harbinger, a colossal seafaring vessel tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead. To where exactly, no one knows. But the crew must get the souls there, and along the way protect them from vicious soul-eating monsters that will stop at nothing to take the ship and all of its occupants. Rhett and his new friends have a hard enough time fighting back the monsters that grow bolder and more ferocious every day. But then a new threat emerges, a demon who wants something that Rhett has. And if she gets it, it could mean the end of everything... for both the living and the dead. Chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads, The Soul Keepers is a pulse-pounding, cinematic adventure by debut author Devon Taylor. Praise for The Soul Keepers: "This pirate thriller starts off running and doesn’t stop ... This series starter will please teens who enjoy the ghostly tales and dark sarcasm of Neil Gaiman and Ransom Riggs." —School Library Journal

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1250168295

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9781250168290

Cold Copper

By: Devon Monk

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Cold Copper

By: Devon Monk

In the Steampunk America of the 1800's, where strange creatures, machines and magic all aim to claim some scrap of land and sky, Ceder Hunt, a cursed bounty hunter who is also a werewolf, must fight to hold on to what is left of his humanity. Sent on a mission to track down all the pieces of a deadly weapon, he lands in a town where no one is safe from the mythical creatures who hunt there. A glorious mix of steampunk, sci-fi and Western.

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0451418611

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Magic In the Blood

By: Devon Monk

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Magic In the Blood

By: Devon Monk

Magic stirred in me, offering whatever I wanted. With little more than a thought and a gesture or two, I could make magic do anything. So long as I was willing to pay the price… Allison Beckstrom knows better than most that when magic’s involved, nothing’s free. She’s had to pay its price of migraines and forgetfulness while working as a Hound, tracing illegal spells back to their casters. And even though magic has stolen her recent memory—including her history with the man she supposedly fell in love with—Allie isn’t about to give up on Hounding, or the city she cares about. Then the police’s magic enforcement division asks her to consult on what seems to be a straightforward missing persons case. But what began as a way to make rent leads Allie into grave danger when the trail she’s following draws her into the dark underworld of criminals, ghosts, and blood magic. There, Allie discovers it will take more than just magic to survive. “We’re going to be hearing a lot more of Devon Monk.” —New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Briggs “Monk’s writing is addictive, and the only cure is more, more, more!” —New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Vincent

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1101046627

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9781101046623

Hell Bent

A Broken Magic Novel

By: Devon Monk

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Hell Bent

A Broken Magic Novel

By: Devon Monk

Instead of the deadly force it once was, magic is now a useless novelty. But not for Shame Flynn and Terric Conley, “breakers” who have the gift for reverting magic back to its full-throttle power. In the magic-dense city of Portland, Oregon, keeping a low profile means keeping their gifts quiet. After three years of dealing with disgruntled magic users, Shame and Terric have had enough of politics, petty magic, and, frankly, each other. It’s time to call it quits. When the government discovers the breakers’ secret—and its potential as a weapon—Shame and Terric suddenly become wanted men, the only ones who can stop the deadly gift from landing in the wrong hands. If only a pair of those wrong hands didn’t belong to a drop-dead-gorgeous assassin Shame is falling for as if it were the end of the world. And if he gets too close to her, it very well could be....

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