A King's Ransom

"A complex father-and-daughter dynamic anchors this engaging and offbeat crime thriller. Verdict: GET IT." - Kirkus Reviews

Her mom's dead. Her dad's pissed. And the gun tying it all together just got stolen.

Plagued by years of torment after witnessing her mother's murder, the daughter of two ex-assassins navigates Los Angeles as it's overrun by supernatural threats and warring factions to find who is responsible for tearing them apart.

Holly Ransom has never cared about the blood-thirsty vampires and pestful pixies inhabiting her world. Why? Because she's aspiring to be like her parents, and contract killers don't get scared, even when they come home and find their mother got murdered all over their kitchen.

Kit Ransom only ever wanted one thing, besides a daughter who listens and doesn't mess with the thermostat: to keep Holly out of the business that got her mother killed. But when she borrows her mother's old work gun, tied to multiple unsolved murders, and it's stolen by Kit's rivals, he's forced to bring her into the world he tried so hard to keep her out of. Now they have to recover the gun before the police find it and rip them apart for good.

Along the way, you'll also meet a cast as unconventional as the Ransoms themselves: a snarky, code-switching vampire desperate for a steady job, and a frustrated closet monster grappling with eternal life and endless bad luck.

Perfect for fans of Jason Pargin and Keith Rosson, this exceedingly weird supernatural noir is a grit-soaked ride through a city where the monsters are just another environmental irritant.