Assassins are killers, not bounty hunters, and certainly not babysitters. But sometimes, even the deadliest find themselves in situations they never expected.
The son of a powerful magic wielder had been kidnapped, and the assassin and his friends found themselves on an unlikely rescue mission. It was not something they did, but a debt was owed, and the job accepted. Their code would not allow otherwise.
But the powers behind the scenes were turning out to be far harder to track down than anticipated. The real forces pulling the strings might not be what they seemed. If they didn't uncover the truth, it could be the end of them all.
Scott Baron is an American author with a penchant for oddball stories with O. Henry-esque twists.
Born in Hollywood, Baron credits growing up in Los Angeles with skewing his humor towards the offbeat and absurd. He studied abroad in Italy during his college years, returning to Los Angeles to work in the film industry as an on-set medic. In addition to writing shorts and novels, Baron is also a screenwriter of both feature and television scripts.
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I don't think anything other than vampire assassin in space needs to be said! I started hoping for a series from the assassins point of view at the beginning of bad luck Charlie. This series had been everything I've wanted and more.
Hozark leads an odd band of misfits to solve the mystery of whose behind the power grab within the council of twenty. You also meet Henni and her violet hair.
In my real life we are sheltering in place, there's no more school for the rest of year, we are leaving house as little as possible- this series has been a great read for that. There's still the O.Henry meets Edgar Rice Burroughs story telling I love. There are bits that still make me laugh out loud wake someone up it's so funny. And a diminutive female armed with stabby sticks to take the edge off