This story continues from Spiders Bite, it's set two months after Fletcher 's funeral. Gin is now retired from the assassination business and is finding it to be boring.
When she is approached by a young woman asking for the Tin Man, she finds her interest piqued. It seems that a local miner, Tobias Dawson is threatening her grandfather and herself, he wants their land and he wants it now.
Gin has also drawn the attention of a very powerful lawyer who works for Mab Monroe, a fire elemental who runs Ashland with an iron fist. She stopped a couple of young men from robbing the Pork Pit and one of them is the son of the lawyer, he's also a fire elemental. When she insists on pressing charges, his father tries intimidating her and getting her to drop the charges but he's chosen the wrong woman to mess with. She's the assassin known as The Spider and she always gets her way.
In the process of getting close to Dawson so she can kill him, Gin finds herself at one of Mab's parties. When she is recognised by Jake McAllister, the young man who tried to rob her place, she ends up killing him so he couldn't give her away or burn her as he promised.
Dealing with Dawson soon becomes a matter of life and death as he recognizes her power and knocks her out. She wakes up to find herself deep in his mine with him and some of his men. When he challenges her to a duel, she has to use her power to defend herself and to finish Dawson off once and for all, ensuring that Violet and Warren Fox never have to sell their property or worry about being murdered ever again.
This is a well-written story with great characters and none stop action all the way through. I love Gin, Finn and the Deveraux sisters. The situations that Gin gets into make me laugh out loud and I highly recommend this series to anyone who loves reading, you get magic, romance, suspense and murder. A great urban fantasy.
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