Cover of The Spy and Her Serpent

The Spy and Her Serpent

Maria Ying

Those Who Bear Arms #2

dark romance(115)

A narcotics empress and the fixer sworn to kill her spiral into fatal, forbidden passion in Singapore.

Content Warnings
violence/goredeath of loved onegrief

Description

Olesya Hua, narcotics empress…has everything: power, wealth, and a city that'll soon be hers. But her hunger is endless. She covets more still—and what Olesya Hua wants, she always gets.Dallas Seidel, syndicate fixer…lost her chosen family to bloody violence ordered by the Huas. She’ll stop at nothing to avenge them—she’ll stop at nothing until the Hua sisters are in the ground.Their goals are in brutal opposition. Deceit and plots-within-plots will put them at each other's throat. They careen toward not just mutually assured destruction, but toward a fatal passion that’ll mark them both forever.The Spy and Her Serpent is a trans-for-trans F/F novella set in contemporary Singapore. Contains: high heat, enemies-to-lovers, hurt/comfort, and a butch/femme couple.

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