Laura Breck

Concrete Clockwork Laura Breck

Ex-military operative Lottie Nightshade is settling into civilian life when a last-minute job interview turns out to be blackmail. Lottie is given two choices, and the least deplorable of them is doing wetwork for an eccentric millionaire.

Philanthropist Dane Harrington has no option but to blackmail Lottie Nightshade. Dane was contracted to terminate a bomber who threatened to level a new arena in St. Paul, Minnesota. The stakes are too high to trust the mission to anyone but a skilled operative, and Dane knows Ms. Nightshade will not do the job willingly.

The bomber realizes he's been targeted for extermination, and the assassin is already closing in on him. The only way he'll live to trigger the arena's destruction is by stopping Lottie Nightshade. Dead.

Lottie feels the bomber's cold stare watching her every move as the timer ticks closer to detonation. He sets off a series of explosions and people begin to die. Will Lottie be able to end the bomber's life without losing hers?