Series: Aud Trilogy

No matter how big and fast and strong you are, how heavily armed or well trained, there's always going to be someone out there who is bigger, faster, or stronger. Always. To Aud Torvingen, violence is a tool, one to be employed with precision. And it can be taught—but when she teaches a women's self-defence class in Atlanta, the consequences...

Stay in the world, Aud . . . Stay alive inside. Promise me. Raw with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to rebuild a remote cabin in the middle of Appalachia. Her solitude is broken when an old friend asks for her help tracking down his missing fiancée, Tammy. Aud feels obliged to help—and first in...

Danger is desperately seductive . . . Aud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the colour of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway, she now lives in the sticky heat of Atlanta—working as a security consultant gliding between the city's elegant elite and its sleazy underbelly. One night during a...