Shiki's Last Choice

By Shantnu Tiwari

Shiki is the world’s best assassin. But she is sick of killing.

In a world overrun by demons, there is nothing to do but kill and survive.

Until she meets 7 year old Mimi, a child not corrupted by the world around her.

Can Shiki finally find the peace she is looking for?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shantnu Tiwari
• Release date: Dec 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781540118004

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Shiki's Last choice

Shiki is the world’s best assassin. But she is sick of killing.

In a world overrun by demons, there is nothing to do but kill and survive.

Until she meets 7 year old Mimi, a child not corrupted by the world around her.

Can Shiki finally find the peace she is looking for?

1

I wish things could have gone different.

I wish I hadn’t killed all of them.

Hate the word fate.

See, I grew up in a very religious—dare I say fanatical—family. Everything was ordained by God. With a capital G. Sun came out ‘cause God said so, crops grew ‘cause again, God decreed so. We were but parts of a big divine plan. This was not just explained to us but beaten into us. Like I said, I hate the word fate.

Yet what else would you call it?

The more I tried to run from violence, the more it caught up with me. Like a jealous lover, it would not just leave me alone.

When I got on that ship, I had no idea what was going to happen.

I had bought my ticket in cash, which was the norm. After all, it was a smuggling ship. Not even a ship, though that’s what it said on the side. I would call it a boat, but then, who was I to judge? If it made the captain happy calling his tiny boat a ship, it was fine by me. Who else would be foolish enough to enter America after the Blight?

The captain of the ship ogled at me, like he had never seen a woman before. "And