Name: Heart of a Killer
ISBN: 9781635555479

Yolanda Wallace

Contract killer Santana Masters's only interest is her next assignment--until a chance meeting with a beautiful stranger tempts her to change her ways.

Heart of a Killer

Megan Cooper

Heart of a Killer is a light romantic intrigue that has all the right elements - super hot assassin with an angsty backstory, smart and successful tech CEO (also pretty hot), murder, betrayal, double dealings, suspense.  Unfortunately, it just didn't seem to go deep enough to deliver the heart-stopping, action-packed read I was hoping for.

Two women meet randomly at a rooftop bar in Tokyo on New Years Eve, innocently flirting over drinks and only using the names TDH and Olaf (omigod, that made me laugh when the geeky CEO has to come up with a name for herself and picks a Disney character).   They part with Olaf giving TDH a kiss on the cheek and an inviting her to call if she's ever in New York.   Not long after, TDH, aka Santana Masters, is perched on a rooftop in New York with her latest target in her rifle scope.  She hesitates and someone else takes the shot, killing the young woman in the office across the street.  When Santana looks through the scope again she sees Olaf entering the room and finding the body.  And so begins the intrigue - who took the shot, why was Brooklyn's (aka Olaf) best friend and employee the target and is someone targeting Santana and Brooklyn.  Santana inserts herself into Brooklyn's life, under the alias of Vilma Bautista the venture capitalist with money to burn, to find out the answers and ensure that Brooklyn isn't next.

The romance works better than the intrigue - with a nice burn between the two that quickly heats up.  You can see the conflict coming though with Santana being an assassin (who was just a hairsbreadth away from killing Brooke's bff) and then the whole alias thing.  The intrigue and action didn't quite hit the mark for me - things weren't really delved into and it just felt pretty superficial and I figured out who contracted the killing and why pretty much from the start. Secretly, I was hoping for a complete revenge bloodbath, especially as Santana is a kick ass assassin who has been pushed too far, but maybe I watch too many movies.

If you're looking for a fairly light read with more focus on romance than intrigue this may be a good one to try.

Heart of a Killer

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