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Marc Notes: Near future thriller about a teen forced to become an indentured assassin who has only three days to complete her hit list--with the added complication of her sole ally's brother being the final assignment--; Provided by publisher.; Ages 14 and up. Publisher Marketing: In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling dystopian thriller. No one reads the fine print. The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that we were bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card application. Now, after a swift and silent takeover that leaves 9-1-1 calls going through to Valor voicemail, they're unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country. Patsy didn't have much of a choice. When the suits showed up at her house threatening to kill her mother then and there for outstanding debt unless Patsy agreed to be an indentured assassin, what was she supposed to do? Let her own mother die? Patsy is forced to take on a five-day mission to complete a hit list of ten names. Each name on Patsy's list has only three choices: pay the debt on the spot, agree to work as a bounty hunter, or die. And Patsy has to kill them personally, or else her mom takes a bullet of her own. Since yarn bombing is the only anarchy in Patsy's past, she's horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that most of the ten people on her list aren't strangers. Things get even more complicated when a moment of mercy lands her with a sidekick: a hot rich kid named Wyatt whose brother is the last name on Patsy's list. The two share an intense chemistry even as every tick of the clock draws them closer to an impossible choice. Delilah S. Dawson offers an absorbing, frightening glimpse at a reality just steps away from ours--a taut, suspenseful thriller that absolutely mesmerizes from start to finish. Review Citations: School Library Journal 01/01/2015 pg. 108 (EAN 9781481423397, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2015 (EAN 9781481423397, Hardcover) Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 58 (EAN 9781481423397, Hardcover) Romantic Times 04/01/2015 pg. 32 (EAN 9781481423397, Hardcover) Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2015 (EAN 9781481423397, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 04/27/2015 (EAN 9781481423397, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Dawson, Delilah S Delilah S. Dawson is a native of Roswell, Georgia, and the author of the paranormal romance Blud series for Pocket, including "Wicked as They Come", "Wicked as She Wants", and the upcoming "Wicked After Midnight", " "as well as two previous Blud novellas, "The Mysterious Madam Morpho "and" The Peculiar Pets of Miss Pleasance". She is also the author of the YA novel "Servants of the Storm".