Format: Kindle, 323 pages
Release Date: December 26th 2018
Publisher: Ever Realm Books
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Romance
Is love worth the danger?
When Hunter Cassidy plans to infiltrate the Assassin's Legion, posing as an assassin-in-training, she is prepared to encounter danger every step of the way. What she doesn't expect is the ruggedly handsome and relentlessly fierce trainee, Slade Baines.
It's hard enough that Hunter is the first female to be accepted to train with the Master Assassin himself. Even when she beats the other candidates, the Master ranks her lowest of all. In the male-dominated Legion, the other trainees see her as a weak link to be driven out of their ranks.
When they try to force Hunter out, Slade gets in their way, becoming an unexpected ally. Despite her best intentions, Hunter finds herself lowering her guard around him, which only makes carrying out her secret mission more difficult and puts her in danger of falling for him.
But there's more at stake than Hunter's heart. The Master Assassin possesses the key to locate a weapon that Hunter must ensure remains hidden at all costs. In her quest to stop this deadly power from falling into the wrong hands, she must make a choice between following her heart... or fulfilling her destiny.
Assassin's Magic is the first installment in author Everly Frost's Assassin's Magic. 20-year old Hunter Cassidy has entered the Home of the Assassin's Legion in Boston. Her
mother died 4 years ago and Hunter is on a mission to retrieve an
important object to make sure her mother did not die in vain. She is the only female in the entire group that has been chosen to compete as Novices to become Superiors, and later Masters if they manage to survive.
Even though she is tougher and more of a badass than 90% of her class mates, there are those who have no use for female assassins. No matter how much she may exceed in her training, there are those who will do anything to trip her up and ensure that she fails. Hunter isn't someone to take lightly. Her mother was the assassin known as The Glass Fox. She taught Hunter her everything she needed to know in order to survive before she was cut down in the prime of her life.
Now, Hunter is on a mission to not only hide who she really is, but to collect answers as to who was responsible for killing her mother. In this world, assassins live by 6 main rules. If you violate any one of them, there are severe consequences for the person who breaks a rule. But, someone crossed the line. As Hunter bobs and weaves her way through a grueling 6 months of training, including missions to assassinate men who are abusing women, she is neck and neck in competition with Slade Barnes.
Slade is impressed with the way that Hunter doesn't back down to anyone. Not the diabolical Master who hates her very existence. Not the superiors who try to trip her up, and especially not her fellow Novices who try to stand in her way of becoming a Superior. Hunter and Slade form a sort of alliance to keep her safe from blind attacks on her when she's not looking. Meanwhile, Hunter has to do whatever it is in her power to keep her real identity or fear being made a target for assassination.
This story had lots of potential to succeed. The book is filled with twists, and action, and devious characters who try to trip Hunter up. She does have some curious allies which include Superior Ridley, Cain Carter, as well as the Guardian who sanctions all assassination requests. I love books about assassins, but I could have done without all the unnecessary pages and pages of X-rated sex. There's some interesting back story's as well, especially when it comes to the revelation of who is really Hunter's father. The sequel, Assassin's Mask, releases in March. I'll be sure to look for it on Kindle Unlimited.
I love assassins and magic, so this is right up my alley.
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