The Deathbrew Affair: The Lethal Webs #1 - Paperback

by Nancy Northcott (Author)

THE DEATHBREW AFFAIR: LETHAL WEBS # 1He's the King of Control Freaks. I'm the Queen of Winging It. Together We'll Save the World... Unless We Kill Each Other First.I'm Casey Billings, an American operative in the London office of a covert, multinational agency. I'm working with an MI5 officer, Jack, Lord Bainbridge, to bring down a bioterrorist who plans to unleash a pandemic. We're posing as newlyweds to infiltrate the community that's a cover for the bioweapons operation. Unfortunately, we don't play well together, and not only because of Jack's distracting, off-the-scales hotness. I grew up poor in a mill town, and he's an aristocrat with more money than a Third World country. Besides that, I fly by the seat of my pants while Jack lives by his plans for every contingency and takes charge of everything. Including me. Or so he thinks.Basically, we'd like to strangle each other. But we have a pandemic to stop.Then all bets are off.

Author Biography

Nancy Northcott's childhood ambition was to grow up and become Wonder Woman. Around fourth grade, she realized it was too late to acquire Amazon genes, but she still loved comic books, science fiction, fantasy, history, and romance. She currently enjoys attending and volunteering at science fiction conventions. Nancy has written freelance articles and taught at the college level. Her most popular course was on science fiction, fantasy, and society. She has also given presentations on the Wars of the Roses and Richard III to university classes studying Shakespeare's play about that king. A sucker for fast action and wrenching emotion, Nancy combines the romance and high stakes she loves in the books she writes. Reviewers have described her books as melding fantasy, romance, and suspense. Library Journal gave her debut novel, Renegade, a starred review, calling it "genre fiction at its best."