The Runningback

"I was fourteen when I killed someone for the first time.

It was with a rifle. My finger wrapped around the trigger and squeezed, and that was all it took to end another person's life, rip apart every seam crafted by the sonorous laughs of family, friends, lovers. They didn't own the privilege of the hand that slowly pulls on a single thread, unraveling the masterpiece that is a life, until the last intertwined string is free and alone.

I tore it in half.

With a single finger.

And maybe the worst part?

I'm not even sorry."

From the moment she took her first steps, Danny has been training to become the best teenage assassin in the nation and fight for her Supreme against the horrendous West Side. But just when it seems like she's gotten everything she's ever wanted-the top position on the lead task force despite being the only female in the Academy, a boy who cares (sometimes seemingly too much) for her, and all her wonderful brothers to keep her company-her world is torn apart when she's assigned a seemingly impossible task: to kill the boy next in line to become the next Supreme of the West Side.

An intriguing and exciting story that explores the morally grey, the struggles of being a woman in a man's world, and the messiness of love.