title: The Lady Killer
author: Saxon, Samantha
description: The acclaimed author of The Lady Lies returns to the tumultuous era of the Napoleonic Wars as a female spy discovers the consequences of desire...
  
  Nicole Beauvoire has many talents. She is intelligent and seductive and possesses the instincts of a hunter. With the sting of a scorpion she has delivered death to enough men to scar her soul forever. But to serve a higher cause and protect the innocent, she has willingly traded any chance at salvation--until handsome Daniel McCurren steps into her life with a dire warning.
  
  The French have set an elaborate trap to catch the beautiful assassin. Nicole doesn't trust Daniel, but the attraction that draws them together is irresistible, a mounting flame of desire that threatens to obliterate all else. And as their enemies circle ever closer, Nicole will find that the greatest risk she's ever taken is to place her life, and her heart, in the hands of a man who doesn't know her darkest secrets...
  
  In 1811 Paris, Andre Tuchelles provides Nicole "Scorpion" Beauvoire with the target of her next assassination, Ministry of Police Joseph LeCoeur. At the same time Joseph sets in motion a trap to capture the Scorpion.
  
  Daniel Damont arrives with a note from Andre that he wants delivered to Scorpion. Nicole refuses to reveal she is the assassin, but reads the note in front of him. The note says to leave Paris as the French have set a trap to catch Scorpion. Nicole tells Daniel that she will inform Scorpion of the danger and meet him at the ship. Nicole stops to see Andre, but finds him dead, battered to death. She assumes Daniel did this and set a trap for her. She plans to complete the assignment and then kill Daniel. When she fails to come to the ship, Daniel looks for her starting at her apartment where he finds her hidden note stating her next assignment. He knows Nicole is the Scorpion and his honor demands he get her out of France. Nicole plans to seduce Joseph so she can be alone with him when she kills him. As Nicole and Daniel work closely together they fall in love, but danger surrounds them from all sides and if they survive she knows she can never return to England.
  
  Hero: Daniel McCurren
  Heroine: Nicole Beauvoire