
Genre:
Speculative Fiction
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Butch / Butch
Butch / Femme
Dystopian
Enemies to Lovers
Fish Out of Water
Kink
Living Abroad / Expat
Mistaken or False Identity
Murder / Crime / Serial Killer
Mystery / Suspense
Noir / Femme Fatale
Nursed Back to Health
Revenge
Rich Girl / Poor Girl
Wartime
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Criminal / Mafia / Prisoner
Spy / Assassin
Geographic Location:
Asia / Pacific Islands
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Transgender
Femme
Butch / Stud
Protagonist Identity:
Asian
Trigger/Content Warning:
Graphic Violence
The Spy and Her Serpent
The Those Who Bear Arms Series, Book 2
By Maria Ying
A rough street criminal on a mission of revenge falls for the one woman she's supposed to kill: Singapore's uncrowned queen of crime.
Olesya Hua, narcotics empress
…has everything: power, wealth, and a city that’ll soon be hers. But her hunger is endless. She covets more still—and what Olesya Hua wants, she always gets.
Dallas Seidel, syndicate fixer
…lost her chosen family to bloody violence ordered by the Huas. She’ll stop at nothing to avenge them—she’ll stop at nothing until the Hua sisters are in the ground.
Their goals are in brutal opposition. Deceit and plots-within-plots will put them at each other’s throat. They careen toward not just mutually assured destruction, but toward a fatal passion that’ll mark them both forever.
The Spy and Her Serpent is a trans-for-trans F/F short novel (53,000 words) set in contemporary Singapore. Contains: high heat, enemies-to-lovers, hurt/comfort, corruption, and a butch/femme couple.