DV Berkom is the USA Today bestselling author of action-packed, riveting adventure and crime thrillers. Known for creating resilient, kick-ass female characters and page-turning plots, her love of the genre stems from a lifelong addiction to reading spy novels, action/adventure stories, and thrillers. A restless soul and adventurer at heart, she spent years moving around the US and traveling to exotic locales before she wrote her first novel and was hooked. More than a dozen books later, she now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Mark, and several imaginary characters who like to tell her what to do. Her most recent books include the Claire Whitcomb Western Series: Retribution, Gunslinger, and Legend, and the latest in the Leine Basso thriller series: Fatal Objective, A Plague of Traitors, Shadow of the Jaguar, Dakota Burn, and Absolution. DV's currently hard at work on her next thriller. For more information, visit her website at www.dvberkom.com. To be the first to hear about new releases and subscriber-only offers, go to: bit.ly/DVB_RL Books by DV Berkom: The Kate Jones Thriller Series: Vol. 1 (books 1-3): Bad Spirits, Dead of Winter, Death Rites, Touring for Death Cruising for Death Yucatán Dead A One Way Ticket to Dead Vigilante Dead The Leine Basso Thriller Series: A Killing Truth Serial Date Bad Traffick The Body Market Cargo The Last Deception Dark Return Absolution Dakota Burn Shadow of the Jaguar A Plague of Traitors Fatal Objective Terminal Threat (summer 2023) The Claire Whitcomb Western Series: Retribution Gunslinger Legend