Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    A Spy to Die For
    Unavailable
    A Spy to Die For
    Unavailable
    A Spy to Die For
    Ebook322 pages4 hours

    A Spy to Die For

    By Kris DeLake

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Praise for Assassins in Love:

    "An exciting adventure with a hot romance between two fascinating characters." —RT Book Reviews, 4 ½ stars

    When Spy Meets Spy

    Agent: Skylight

    Profile: Seasoned Assassin Guild Super-Sleuth. Talented enough that she can write her own rules.

    Budget: Unlimited.

    Agent: Jack

    Profile: Main investigator for the loosely federated Rover Assassins. Guided by a strict moral code, fierce loyalty, and a sense of duty.

    More Than Sparks Will Fly

    On opposite sides of a high-stakes game, lust lures two spies together in a passionate encounter. Little do they know that the heat of the moment would bind them, turning their worlds upside down. Hunted by deadly assassins, can the pair and their love withstand the onslaught?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateJul 2, 2013
    ISBN9781402262869
    Unavailable
    A Spy to Die For
    Author

    Kris DeLake

    Kris DeLake is a pseudonym of Hugo award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Writing under three pseudonyms, she has sold 10 million copies of her books. Before turning to romance writing, she edited the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and ran Pulphouse Publishing (which won her a World Fantasy Award). Fans of her paranormal romances know her as Kristine Grayson. As Kris DeLake, she is launching a new name for her fantasy/sci-fi romances. She lives with writer Dean Wesley Smith in Oregon.

    Related to A Spy to Die For

    Related ebooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Little BALLERINA

      Aug 5, 2020

      The Little BALLERINA
      6 min read

    • Article

      Wicked AUNTIE?

      Jan 5, 2022

      Wicked AUNTIE?
      3 min read

    • Article

      Daughter’s DILEMMA

      Dec 29, 2021

      Daughter’s DILEMMA
      3 min read

    • Article

      I Saw Plenty

      Jun 1, 2020

      I Saw Plenty
      6 min read

    • Article

      A PRECIOUS Moment In Time

      Jun 17, 2019

      There’s something about Lambrook Hall that always draws me back and I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been here. I don’t really care if it’s hundreds, to be honest. I can’t resist it. I’m in the dining room again now. Not the ballroom or the lib

      6 min read

    • Article

      An Unspoken

      Mar 3, 2020

      Hal Parker runs out to his wife’s hydrangea bushes. He’s trying to scare away the neighbor’s black Lab, Major. Hal claps his hands in front of him and shouts, but Major’s already peeing on the bush. It seems to Hal that lately the dog just won’t stay

      11 min read

    • Article

      The Man I Should Have Married

      Dec 29, 2019

      The Man I Should Have Married
      11 min read

    • Article

      Book Extract

      May 16, 2022

      Book Extract
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Jul 28, 2023

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Jul 28, 2023

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Let’s Play Dead

      Mar 3, 2020

      There was a man, let’s call him Henry VIII. There was his wife, let’s call her Anne B. Let’s give them a castle and make it nice. Let’s give her many boy babies but make them dead. Let’s give him a fussy way of being. Let’s make her smart and sneaky,

      17 min read

    • Article

      Changing ROOMS

      Sep 14, 2022

      Changing ROOMS
      6 min read

    • Article

      Life Is A Bowl Of Soup

      Feb 3, 2021

      DO you want brown soup or yellow soup?’ Zam is poking around in the fridge. I think it’s lunchtime, but who knows, as the day is relentlessly dark and wet. I choose yellow and am stirring it around my bowl when I realise something important. I ring m

      2 min read

    • Article

      Tomorrows

      Mar 15, 2022

      The night, as most nights, was like a dream. At ten, once I’d fed the dog the last scraps off the stove. Once I’d cursed the cat for scratching up my mama’s antique furniture, then welcomed him back into my arms. Once I’d slicked my hair into a ponyt

      26 min read

    • Article

      ‘Cygnet’: Featured Fiction from Season Butler

      Jun 25, 2019

      A excerpt from Butler's debut coming-of-age novel, set in an appealingly rich world with quirky, flawed characters and a dramatic oceanfront landscape. The post ‘Cygnet’: Featured Fiction from Season Butler appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Klara

      May 21, 2020

      Klara
      28 min read

    • Article

      Saint Cuthbert’s Incorruptible Body

      Sep 8, 2020

      In the year of our Lord 687, in cause of an early, wet spring, the body of Saint Cuthbert was laid in the ground to rest. On the tomb were figured angels and seraphim of plain but wonderful design. And among these flitted cherubs, like apricots set i

      19 min read

    • Article

      The Idiots

      Feb 26, 2021

      The Idiots
      18 min read

    • Article

      Flour

      Mar 15, 2018

      The driver and I got a late start. I usually decide on these excursions the night before, but it was late in the morning when I informed the friend who was coming to visit me for the weekend that I had to cancel, it was absolutely necessary for me to

      7 min read

    • Article

      Round Trip

      Nov 26, 2018

      Round Trip
      6 min read

    • Article

      Above Santa Cruz

      Jul 2, 2019

      Above Santa Cruz
      5 min read

    • Article

      Intarsia

      Feb 6, 2020

      Intarsia
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Bid For FREEDOM

      Feb 6, 2024

      A Bid For FREEDOM
      14 min read

    • Article

      The Joys of Serendipity

      Mar 22, 2022

      The Joys of Serendipity
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Duplex

      Jun 9, 2020

      I moved to Los Angeles to sing. When was this? August? June? I was twenty-nine, and those were shapeless months, when the days blended together and I refused to pull them apart. My landlord was unusually close to her adult son. His name was Jeffrey,

      21 min read

    • Article

      Some Gringo

      Dec 4, 2020

      Some Gringo
      23 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Spy to Die For

    3/5

    8 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      That blurb is very misleading, no memory of that happening...

      Ok girl eat at a shady burger joint, in comes hot guy. Girl is a bit lonely, she is a spy after all without any friends. Girl and boy ends up in bed. Boy is a spy too from another organization. Soon boy and girl are running and falling in love and lust. Now that is what this book is about.

      Sky is a bad assassin who turned spy. Jack is good at finding things so he turned spy too. Set in a distant future where assassins are for hire and nothing wrong with that. Which makes this into a sci-fi romantic suspense story. If you are not into sci-fi then do not worry, you can take a few ships and sonic showers. If you like sci-fi then good, you will get some romance too thrown in. And of course the suspense part as something fishy is going on and someone is unhappy. Which means run you fools!

      It was interesting to see them fall cos they fitted each other well but Sky had her issues. A lone wolf. While Jack, oh I do like when I guy falls first.

      It made me wonder about book 1 too, sounds quite interesting too.

      A spy novel set in space and a promise of passion.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Reading this book was a mistake.It wasn’t because it’s a romance. That’s obvious from the cover and description. It’s not a genre I read, but I’ve liked some of the work of Kristine Kathryn Rusch, the author behind the Kris DeLake pen name. This is a follow up to Rusch’s “Skylight”, a short story explaining the origins of the novel’s heroine, Skylight Jones.I wanted to see if more was done with the idea, from that story, of an interplanetary civilization where inadequacies in the legal system lead to a system of legalized assassination as a remedy.Unfortunately, I got no more details about this story’s background.In fact, there are no real details about much of anything except the characters’ feelings and some of their meals. I get this is a romance. Complaining about the amount of space devoted to dialogue and internal monologues in a romance is like complaining about way too much crime going on in mystery novels. It’s the defining content of the genre.And I’ll even grant the lame plot coincidence of the two main characters just happening to have the same basic job and oh too conveniently mirroring other characters in the Assassin Guild series -- which I will not be reading any further in.But it’s the lack of detail on everything else that greatly annoyed me.Apart from some talk about burgers, we get little detail on what the characters eat, what the characters wear, and the places they go to. The science fiction paraphernalia is of the most generic kind: laser pistols, vaguely described computer systems and databases, augmentation to bodies (mechanical? biological? unknown), and space yachts. The vagueness of it all reminds me of a writer not having the time to write short, so she wrote long. The dialogue and pacing may be competent, but the whole thing reminds me of a generic plot dusted off and slotted into science fiction with a few appropriate nouns. Minus the whole enabling legal premise, I can almost imagine this taking place on a conventional yacht and involving pirates.There isn’t even that much hot sex.I know romance writers often have a lot of restrictions placed on them by publishers, but does this publisher really insist on this kind of bland merger of romance and science fiction? Somehow I don’t think the popular Catherine Asaro or Lois McMaster Bujold write this way.The worse thing is that Rusch knows how to write good, interesting science fiction. DeLake doesn’t.It’s very likely I’ll read Rusch in the future. It’s very certain I won’t be reading any more DeLake.