Art of the Kill - Paperback

by Joe Cooke (Author)

She ran from home. She ran out of time. Now she's running out of humanity.

On the morning after her sixteenth birthday, Artemisia Vane tries to end the nightmare that has ruled her life.

She fails.

Beaten, abandoned, and left to survive on the streets of Santa Fe, Art is offered a way out by a mysterious program called Girls Who Run.

It's not a rescue-it's a recruitment.

Backed by a shadow organization known as the Consortium, Girls Who Run identifies broken girls with one valuable trait: the capacity for violence-and turns them into elite assassins.

No rules. No mercy. No way out.

Inside a brutal training compound deep in Mexico, Art is pushed past every limit-physically, mentally, morally. Friendships become weapons. Loyalty becomes weakness. Survival means becoming exactly what they want her to be.

But Art has a mission of her own.

She will go back.

She will find him.

And she will finish what she started.

But the deeper she goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes, because the Consortium's reach is longer than she imagined, her past is more tangled than she knows, and the people she learns to trust may be the ones to destroy her.

As betrayal closes in and time runs out to save the only family she has left, Art faces a choice that will define her forever: escape the life they built for her, or become the deadliest weapon they've ever created.