"It's hard to be a badass assassin when a giant is beating the crap out of you. Luckily, I never let pride get in the way of my work. My current mission is personal: annihilate Mab Monroe, the Fire elemental who murdered my family. Which means protecting my identity, even if I have to conceal my powerful Stone and Ice magic when I need it most. To the public, I'm Gin Blanco, owner of Ashland's best barbecue joint. To my friends, I'm the Spider, retired...

Gin Blanco, the semi-retired assassin known as the Spider, has a bull's-eye on her forehead. Cold-blooded fire elemental Mab Monroe has hired one of the smartest assassins in the business to trap her. Elektra LaFleur is skilled and efficient, with deadly electrical elemental magic. There's a fifty-fifty chance one of them won't survive this battle. Gin intends to kill Lafleur--or die trying--because Mab wants the assassin to take out her baby sister,...

When assassin Gin Blanco, a.k.a. the Spider, is robbed and taken hostage at gunpoint during the biggest gala event of the summer at Ashland's fanciest art museum, she is more than happy to show these unlucky thieves that red is her favorite color.

Gin Blanco is hard-nosed, sexy, and lethal. Nicknamed "The Spider," she's a stone elemental assassin who brings her unique mix of magic and tact to every assignment, no matter the target. There's a new drug on the streets of Ashland, and its name "Burn" sums up the potent effect it has on its users. When one of her restaurant employees is threatened by dealers of the drug, Gin steps in to set things straight...

Relying on her Ice and Stone magic to survive her new position, the queen of Ashland's underworld is forced to play a deadly game with killers, crooks and thieves, in which she discovers that her greatest superpower of all is her ability to keep secrets.

"I've battled a lot of bad guys in my time, both as Gin Blanco and as the notorious assassin the Spider. But I've never faced off against anyone quite as powerful and deadly as the dastardly leader of the Circle secret society. Just when I finally have a lead on how I can defeat the evil group once and for all, new information comes to light that throws me for a loop. Suddenly, everyone and everything I love is in imminent peril of being destroyed,...