num_pages: 398
description: 'Original, dark, and gritty, with enough humanity to keep you caring about its antiheroes and enough suspense to keep you turning the pages.' - CodyMcFadyen, author of Shadow ManTo the outside world Nadia Stafford is a smart, good-looking, law-abiding citizen. Well, two out of three's not bad...An ex-cop with a legal code all her own, Nadia has a secret life as a world-class assassin. She works only for one New York crime family, who pay her handsomely to bump off traitors. But when a troubled teenager and her baby vanish in the woods near her home, Nadia's old detective instincts - and the memory of a past loss - compel her to investigate.With her enigmatic mentor Jack to support her, Nadia unearths sinister clues that point to an increasingly dark and deadly mystery. As her obsession over the case deepens, Nadia realises that the only way she can right the wrongs of the present is to face her own painful ghosts - or die trying. And so she sets off on the trail of a young woman no one else cares about - and a killer who is bound to strike again...Book 2 in a gripping non-supernatural series from the author of Bitten and Industrial MagicBooks by Kelley Women of the Otherworld seriesBittenStolenDime Store MagicIndustrial MagicHauntedBrokenNo Humans InvolvedPersonal DemonLiving with the DeadFrost BittenWalking the WitchSpellboundThirteenNadia StaffordExit StrategyMade to be BrokenWild JusticeRocktonCity of the LostA Darkness AbsoluteThis Fallen PreyWatcher in the WoodsAlone in the WildDarkest PowersThe SummoningThe AwakeningThe ReckoningOtherworld TalesMen of the OtherworldTales of the OtherworldOtherworld NightsOtherworld SecretsOtherworld ChillsDarkness RisingThe GatheringThe CallingThe RisingCainsvilleOmensVisionsDeceptionsBetrayalsRituals
language: English
title: Made To Be Broken
titlecomplete: Made To Be Broken (Nadia Stafford, #2)
characters: Grant Beecham, Sammi Ernst, Benny Durant, Nadia Stafford, Ron Fenniger, Frank Tomassini, OPP Officer Don Riley, Liz Bowles, Eric and Jason Myles, and Brett Helms, The Previls, Honcho, The Waldens, Helmuth Buxbaum, Honcho's client, Drew Aldrich, Evelyn (Exit Strategy), Quinn (Exit Strategy), Roberta MacNeil, Meredith Desmond and Kira Desmond, Wayne Franco, Mina Jackson and Nate Hellqvist, Kenneth and Leslie Keyes, Deanna Macey, Trent Drayton, and his parents, Brad Stafford, Rick Hargrave & Tess Hargrave, Jordan Fifer, Felix (Made to be Broken), Jack (Exit Strategy), Conrad Soukis, Janie Ernst, Mrs. Stella Anderson, Bill Stafford, Uncle Eddie and Cousin Amy
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Adult, Contemporary, Crime, Urban Fantasy, Suspense
ratings_count: 5834
places: Toronto, Ontario, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan
series: Nadia Stafford
publisher: Sphere