Keep Holding On: Deadly Dames, #1

By Ava Mallory

She's the Dame of Death. No one knows that until it's too late, and that's the way she likes it. This mission will be no different. She must find the man who killed the love of her life. To do that, she must achieve the impossible, or what would be deemed impossible if she didn't possess abilities that could destroy everything and everyone.

1980's Mexico is the destination. The mission is personal. The outcome not guaranteed. The sweet taste of revenge worth the wait in this paranormal romance with bite.

NOTE: Previously published as Dame of Death in a multi-author anthology collection.

** This is a short story. **

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ava Mallory
• Release date: Aug 12, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393448600

Ava Mallory

Ava Mallory is brilliant, worldly and multi-talented - in her dreams. In reality, she spends her days catering to the often nonsensical, utterly impossible, never-ending needs of four children between the ages of 24 and 10.  When she completes every task on their "Mom, can-you-do" list, she sneaks off into her home office - most often without sleep, but always with coffee & chocolate in hand - and writes until her brain and her body finally give way or one of the many streaming television programs she's addicted to returns with new episodes. Either way, words make it on the page and her fans will not stage a revolt.  Currently, Ava is hard at work on future Mercy Mares novels and developing two new Cozy Mystery series'. 

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Keep Holding On

By Ava Mallory

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She’s the Dame of Death. No one knows that until it’s too late, and that’s the way she likes it. This mission will be no different. She must find the man who killed the love of her life. To do that, she must achieve the impossible, or what would be deemed impossible if she didn’t possess abilities that could destroy everything and everyone.

1980’s Mexico is the destination. The mission is personal. The outcome not guaranteed. The sweet taste of revenge worth the wait in this paranormal romance with bite.

*Previously published as Dame of Death, as part of a paranormal romance multiauthor anthology.

Chapter 1

When I met death, he wore a Kangol bucket hat and parachute pants. A perfect specimen from his dark mane down to his Chucks. Deliciously dangerous. I should have heeded the warnings, but I don’t regret that I didn’t.

Three months have passed since I bid my love farewell. Three months of incessant mourning. Weeks of cursing the beast that banished him from this world. A lifetime of moments we’ll never share. They’re why I’m here. This is where the clues have led me. The savage who took my beloved is holed up here, living his life as if nothing ever happened. He may have taken my one and only, but he didn’t remove what will forever remain in my heart: revenge.

I’ll find him. He’ll meet his fate. One way or another.

"Bienvenidos a Mexico," the annoying Pan Am stewardess