#I'm almost halfway through Divinely Volatile

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WIP INTRO:

Titles in the series: 

Divinely Volatile - Protagonists: Ryang Ji-hoon/Fen Yueliang

Deadly Lineage - Protagonists: Ambrose Fewtree/Vera Ucci

Cold Snap - Protagonists: Tan Shun/Sarnai Ramchaa

Scorched Desire - Protagonists: Mohammed al Sadat/Sorcha Dunaid

Heavenly Kodachi - Protagonists: Hisakawa Tadamasa/Aurora McCabb

Broken Oaths - Protagonists: Hisakawa Yoshihiro/Ina Howell

Smudged Iron - Protagonists: Calum McCabb/Glenn Oake

Blood Covenant - Protagonists: All of the above

DIVINELY VOLATILE

Ryang Ji-hoon had a talent for blowing things up. After an incident in his youth he had two choices: put those skills to good use or go to jail. It was a no brainer. His methods were flashy, messy and chaotic; the opposite of his personality. Fen Yueliang: a decorated soldier, good at protecting high profile targets. She's got a bullseye on her back and the only way it's getting hit is with something big and messy. Of course, everything goes wrong. Ji-hoon tries everything to backtrack the situation, but there's nothing to do but continue forward, getting into bigger messes that aren't the kind he's used to dealing with. Yueliang senses something's off about Ji-hoon, but can't put her finger on it. The more time they spend together the more she questions if it's something right with him instead.

DEADLY LINEAGE

Ambrose Fewtree: poison master for the Brotherhood. His methods are untraceable and flawless, unless the client says otherwise. With his unassuming looks and ability to blend into the woodwork, by the time anyone realises what's happening he's long gone. Vera Ucci is related to a distant line of Sardinian royalty. With her political and sociological grandstanding, she's making the wrong kind of impression on those who want to return to the glory days of old. Since she can't be killedin an obvious way, Ambrose is sent to Italy to take care of things quietly. He runs into problems when Vera notices him. No one notices him. Ever. She engages in small talk about one of his favourite subjects and from there it grows harder to get the job done.

COLD SNAP

Tan Shun is the best assassin in the Brotherhood. He's the most expensive, the most sought after. He never misses and doesn't understand the word mercy. Raised among heartless killers, he has ice running in his veins. His latest target is a name on a piece of paper and he doesn't want to know more. There is one word to describe Sarnai Ramchaa: capable. An investigative reporter, she's using all of her contacts and skills to look into a chemical factory explosion fifteen years before, in which both her parents died. With a personal stake in the result, she's not letting this one go, despite the threats she's received. After a busy night, Sarnai is heading home when someone approaches her from behind. On edge, she strikes out. It's a man, and the blow to his head has given him amnesia. He's her responsibility until his memory returns. Over the days it takes for Shun to remember, he finds himself falling for Sarnai. When he remembers, he wants to forget again. It works, until someone else comes after her and he's forced to reveal his skills.

SCORCHED DESIRE

Mohammed al Sadat has other skills make up for the lack of killer instinct. With his charming smile and easy manner, he cosies up to the coldest of marks, gets them to spill their secrets, and leaves them none the wiser. Sorcha Dunaid is next in line for CEO of Kingdom Conglomerate. With her mane of fiery red hair, people often assume she's wild and spirited, but her business like calm cuts them down to size. Her heart remains firmly inside her chest, no matter who tries to claim it. One, cliched night in a bar, Sorcha sits next to a man with the most heartbreaking eyes she's ever seen. They chat, toast, drink, and then she leaves, smiling at his look of surprise. Mo thought his job would be easy. Sorcha responded to him just like all the rest, but then she dismissed him. He can't finish the job without her corporate secrets, but has a feeling getting them will take more than a winning smile and smouldering look.

HEAVENLY KODACHI

Hisakawa Tadamasa: youngest son of he who created the Brotherhood. Expectations for success are stratospheric compared to his brothers. He is tested often. Given jobs that don't quite ring true, but he never stops to question. Until the latest one. Aurora McCabb isn't the typical mark. Living off grid in Alaska, on native land that was her family's before the first settlers, no one would think she'd done anything to warrant a price on her head. Bright and free spirited, she lives day to day, enjoying all that life gives. And he was there to take it away. Tada watched from the shadows, observing Aurora teasing her two brothers, helping her father and grandmother. He would learn everything about her before he decided to obey his father. If her death was a test of obedience he would fail. If it wasn't...he might fail anyway. Could he really fell a star from the heavens?

BROKEN OATHS

Hisakawa Yoshihiro, Tadamasa's older brother and third in line for taking the reins of the Brotherhood, should anything happen to his father or brothers. He teaches the craft and does it well, but doesn't take his skills into the field. Until now. Doctor Ina Howell is secretly investigating the hospital she works at after learning they had something to hide. What she's found has put her in the crosshairs. Being good in theory, somehow doesn't translate to practice, and Yoshi fluffs shooting Ina. Instead, he winds up with a bullet hole in his foot and her tending to it. Instead of gratitude, Yoshi is lectured. The level of affront he feels at this makes him return again and again, trying to convince himself he's working up to killing Ina, but in actuality, he's just falling for her. If he breaks from the Brotherhood he risks angering his father. If he doesn't, he risks breaking his own heart.

SMUDGED IRON

Glenn Oake isn't part of the Brotherhood. She tried convincing the head that having a set of breasts would make her job more fun, but he didn't bite. His loss, since she had more work than she could handle thanks to the best of them jumping ship. Calum McCabb doesn't fade into the background. Thanks to his reckless little sister his family relocated, but he stayed, reasoning he could handle any man stepping onto his land. He didn't expect for a woman to come. Fortunately got Calum, Glenn prefers getting information from her targets in more pleasurable ways. He isn't finding it hard to keep his mouth shut, but he is finding it hard not to spill the beans about everything else. As Glenn teases Calum into revealing his hopes and fears, she starts wondering if she isn't playing herself, too.

BLOOD COVENANT

All the players are in place for one final showdown. They want their lives back. They want answers. It'll be a struggle to get them. Not everyone may succeed.