❛ 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗟𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗬, 𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗘 ❜ ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗜𝗡 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 spencer reid becomes fascinated with getting to know a woman who's used to being anyone but herself. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ New York has always been bad, but it's managed to get worse. Bodies are piling up and none of the typically eager gangs are taking credit. Witnesses only point them in one direction, and that's toward a woman considered to be some sort of street goddess. Finding the elusive mob queen by the name of Aphrodite proves to be a bit easier than anyone expected, but maybe that was her plan all along. This case will get her in with the team, but it's what comes after that makes her part of the family. As Aphrodite is well and truly acquainted with, however, one's family is the group with the power to cut the deepest if you let them. * Warning: this book may contain explicit themes such as excessive swearing, depictions of violence, and sexually explicit content. [circa season seven]

❝ YOU KNOW, YOU'RE RUDE. ❞ ❝ WOW, YOU'RE LIKE A DETECTIVE OR SOMETHING. ❞ Scout Wiley has two sides. The loudmouth mailroom girl who hates coffee, and the trained assassin who never misses her target. Thanks to years of training, these lives have been kept separated. But after an unusual incident, Scout can't help her intense curiosity towards the mysterious, and a little bit charming, Dr. Spencer Reid. As she learns more, her separate lives begin to merge in a dangerously lethal way. Scout knows her mission. She cannot fail. But what if succeeding sudden cost more than she bargained for? And is it worth anything if it destroys the only love she's ever known? - previously titled NUMB - ( BOOK ONE of FIGHT OR FLIGHT ) rankings: #1 in criminal minds #1 in reid x oc #1 in spencer reid #1 in matthew gray gubler