Aria King
Twenty-two. Four years as Carmine Moretti’s favourite weapon. One last job stands between her and a clean exit, and the job is Torrin.
Who she is
Aria King is the face on the magazine covers and, until recently, the woman on Carmine Moretti’s arm. She walked into his bar at eighteen looking for a job. For four years she was his girlfriend and his best asset, sent to charm the men he needed. She got out by becoming a model the whole city knows.
Carmine offers her a clean break for one more job: get close to the Irish chemist and find out who he really is.
She is quick, dry and better read than anyone expects. She can cry on demand. She has never known her father.
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She grew up with a mother who put violent boyfriends first, went into foster care and left on her own. The only person who mothered her was her grandmother.
She falls for the mark. When Torrin wakes from his coma believing she is his wife, she lets him believe it, on Carmine’s orders and for reasons of her own. She confesses in Belfast, and she stays when he tells her the worst thing he has done.
She says “I love you” first. She says yes in a parking garage. She leaves him in a hospital with a letter, because the alternative is his death.
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She spends the year away on Isla Taylor’s tour and then her yacht, training until she can throw a punch and hold her own with a gun.
Her name was Cara Fisher. The woman who raised her was her aunt. Her mother, Caroline, was an artist murdered the year Aria was born, and her father is Senator Levi Abbot.
She kills the friend who betrayed her, forgives the man who lied to her, and ends the book as Aria Walker, building bombs in the basement.
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