It’s unexpected, it’s romantic, and it comes out today!

SERIAL KILLER WANTED is not only the debut thriller for my pen name, Nika Grace, it’s also my first queer romance. But for fans of my contemporary romances, do not fear! There’s plenty in this one that you’ll love, such as:

• Adorable found family
• A core of hope in any kind of darkness
• The vulnerability that comes from really, really liking someone
• No bullshit answers to life’s hardest questions
• Touch her and die energy
• Slow burn WHEN ARE THEY GONNA KISS vibes
• Messy characters you didn’t mean to love this much
• A cute dog, because why not?

But this time, there’s also vigilante murdering of bad men, badass fight scenes, a twisty plot that will keep you guessing, and an absolute leather jacket of a heroine who makes no apologies for what she’s capable of. Meet Dani…

This is probably the weirdest, most iconoclastic love story I’ve ever written. It’s Killing Eve but with more romance. It’s Butcher and Blackbird, but without the oddball comedy about killing and the gross-out humor. It’s Dexter, but with more hope and with the ladies running the show. Think you’ve read something like it? Think again.

You need to kill and I need to die. Let’s talk.

Dexter meets Killing Eve in this sapphic psychological suspense when a woman contemplating suicide posts an online ad for a serial killer.

Being a killer comes easy to Dani. So easy it’s getting boring, in fact. But this girl isn’t taking orders from anybody, not even fate. If she’s going to keep up with the stab-and-shovel work, she’s going to create her own code for who deserves a medal or a bullet. When she happens across a Help Wanted ad that would allow her to do just that…she’s intrigued.

Jeika wants to die. Preferably, before the cops who are on her tail find the evidence to prove what she did. Except the only one who can help her do that is also the one who’s starting to make her life interesting again.

The last thing Dani expects is to fall for her next victim through the secret emails they share. But before they can decide if their new love is enough to change their very opposite fates, a twisted vigilante starts stalking them both.

They may not be ready to fight for themselves, but how far will they go to save each other?

With heart-pounding twists and deadpan snark, Serial Killer Wanted is a breathless binge-read for fans of They Never Learn and Butcher and Blackbird.

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• Winner of the Book Pipeline Grand Prize in Mystery/Thriller
• Editor’s Choice Winner of the Fiction 101 Contest from Idaho Press Tribune
• Finalist in Booksie First Chapter Contest

“Nika Grace cleverly toys with genre conventions as the novel morphs from a mystery to a thriller to a tale of sapphic self-discovery. It’s a dark delight.” – Publisher’s Weekly

“I loved how this book was the perfect mix of thriller and violence, but also included soul searching and love.” – Carl H, Netgalley

“A brilliantly written dark and witty thriller with an emotional gut punch at its core.” —Katherine Greene, author of THE LAKE OF LOST GIRLS

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