A hot chick. A golden blade. Dead bodies. It s enough to make a cop crazy. Keely Montgomery doesn t spend much time thinking about death. She s too busy working toward a Ph.D. in social work her ticket out of a low-rent apartment in a New Jersey urban center. Until an angelic courier delivers a scroll from the Office of Death and Dismemberment that could take her career down a new path as one of Heaven s Holy Assassins. Her? Become a Scythe? No thanks, not interested. But she underestimates how persistent Heaven can be. Detective Josiah Adler has seen a lot of weird things during his time on the force. A hot blonde wielding a golden blade, standing over a string of dead bodies? That s a new one. So is the fact that her grisly deeds leave no blood or marks on the bodies. The woman s effect on his libido is another new development. One that leaves him no choice but to nail her before she kills again. And before his heart no longer stands a chance "