The Perfect Target
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Last published Sun, Jun 9, 2019
"See Evaline, fear can't hurt you anymore than a dream. Maybe there is a beast. Or maybe, it's just us."
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Phoenix Royer is one of the most heartless and highly skilled contract killers known to man.
Or not.
He enjoys what he does.
If you want someone dead, he's who you call.
But what happens when he finds his most recent target already murdered and a breathtakingly silky, brunnette trapped inside his basement?
An angel with a secret of her own...
He can't decide whether to kill her or to take her home.
She's a journalist who is also no stranger to the dangers of the real world.
Looking for the story of her career, she places herself right in the middle of it all.
And she just so happens to find it in the emerald, green eyes of a hitman.
(Recommended for 17+ due to some mature scenes and language)
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