Sterling is a seventeen-year-old assassin. Exiled from his home and alone in the world—save for his technical support and best friend, Ronan—his focus is laser tight and restrictive. His missions are his life. They are the only way to make his family—leaders of the order of assassins he serves—forgive him for his past. His duty is clear: he kills evil people to keep innocent people safe. He is very good at his job.
During a mission in Houston, TX, he discovers that Garrett Cage, purveyor of genocide, top assassin, master of disguise and all-around bad guy, is hiding in the city under an assumed identity. No one has gotten close to Cage without ending up in the morgue, but Sterling knows he has to try. Innocent lives are at risk.
Sterling only has one clue to Cage’s whereabouts, a vague hint that he is hiding somewhere in plain sight at a high school in Houston. With plastic surgery, Cage could be any of the teachers. Sterling’s age and experience make him the perfect choice for the mission, but Sterling also realizes that the only way to get close to Cage is to blend in with his classmates. Being noticed isn’t an option for him. That means dating a girl who pursues him from the moment she sees him—a girl named Audrey Montgomery. Her family is normal, perfect and the sort of cover that means Cage will not notice him until the killing blow.
They are also exactly the kind of distraction that could get him killed.
The more he sees of Audrey, her sister, Willa, and their parents, the more he realizes what he’s been missing in a family. He also realizes that he’s with the wrong girl—and that the right girl is determined to expose all of his secrets. He doesn’t know which is worse - the idea that a trained assassin might kill him or a girl with a knack for solving mysteries may very well figure him out.
Willa Montgomery is a high school student with a dream of going to Columbia University to study law. She wants nothing more than to keep her head down and get out of Houston as soon as possible. Her life has been perfectly planned—college, law school, an internship at a prestigious law firm, partner, a major case that revolutionizes modern law, friends with the president and, ultimately, the youngest Supreme Court Justice in the history of the United States. She knows what she wants, and she has spent her life working hard to achieve her goals, to the exclusion of everything outside of her studies and her family. Her focus is narrow and precise; she likes to keep things simple and her task firmly in front of her. She knows her effort and dedication are the only things that will get her where she wants to go in the end. And she likes things just the way they are.
But everything changes when Sterling walks into her sister’s life. She instantly knows he’s not who he says he is, and her skill at unraveling mysteries tells her that she can’t ignore the threat she knows him to be. He’s something darker than what he claims, something that worries her. The only thing that has ever really mattered to her around her studies is her sister. She has always looked out for her. She has to investigate. She has to understand.
Looking up from her books may very well be her undoing.
On top of her mission to understand Sterling, she finds herself drawn to a murder in her neighborhood. The mystery of it piques the part of her that wants to be a lawyer. She wants justice for the man. If she can’t get a clear picture on Sterling, or the confused feelings he leaves with her every time she sees him, she’ll at least figure out who the murderer is.
She has no idea that her search is pulling her ever closer to Cage and the truth of Sterling’s secret until it’s far too late to turn back. It becomes clear to her that there is only one way to keep Cage away from her family, particularly her sister—help Sterling with his mission.
It is a mission that quickly turns bloody.
Revelation is a Young Adult thriller and romance. It is told from both Sterling’s and Willa’s points of view.
With the funds raised, I will produce and distribute Revelation, a book I believe in wholeheartedly.