Without Villains

October Sky reads tarot in a courthouse basement and pretends it's a hobby. It isn't. The cards told her the water was poisoned before anyone else knew to look, and now a woman with a Senate campaign wants her to keep looking.

Victoria Armstrong has a wife who's dying of something the city says isn't happening, a war she didn't ask to be the face of, and a gift she never wanted: with a touch, she can take a memory. Just one. Just the useful one. Just this once.

Dannika Love was discharged from the Air Force for being unstable. She wasn't unstable. She was para — and the man who saved her by throwing her out just promised to kill her the next time he sees her.

They're not enemies. That's the problem. They're all trying to save the same city, and every one of them is willing to become something worse to do it.

The water is killing paranormals. The people getting rich off it have names, and offices, and very good lawyers. And somewhere in the middle of it is a man whose voice can make you do anything — and who never, ever drinks from the tap.

Nobody gets rescued. Nobody gets a clean win. And by the end, you won't be able to point to the villain — because you'll have watched all three of them build her.

From USA Today bestselling author F.J. Blooding. Set in the Whiskey-verse. No fated mates. No flinch.

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