Meet the Character

This here is Cesare Shahidi. She’s an assassin, a model, a linguist and an incurable lover of all things deadly. She’s also my next great character. Her first book, Assassin, will be out in the summer of next year, but I wanted to give you a preview of her now. Everyone, Cesare Shahidi:

Name: Cesare (Che-za-ray) Shahidi, alias, Essence Carter
Code Name: Paragon
Profession: Model turned assassin
Expertise: Killing them softly
Weapon of choice: Poison
Backup weapon of choice: Stiletto
Backup to the backup: Her body
Base of operations: Barcelona
Languages spoken: Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Spanish
Quote that best describes her: “Veni, vidi, vici”
First seen in: You are Mine (final story for At Last’s Caroline and Brian)
Other appearances: Assassin by Lisa G. Riley and The Lion in Russia by Roslyn Hardy Holcomb

Description: She was what you got when a disillusioned former female member of the American Black Power Movement married and reproduced with an Iranian-American dissident who could trace his family’s roots all the way back to the Lasiqs of the Order of the Assassins: dangerous, fervently committed to the cause and sometimes crazy as hell.