Wraith (Debt Collector 10) by Susan Kaye Quinn

Wraith (Debt Collector 10)
    Copyright © 2014 by Susan Kaye Quinn
    October 2014 Edition
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    Cover by Steven Novak

    The Debt Collector Serial
    Wraith - Episode 10  
    NOTE: This is the Second Season . 
    Recommended:  start with the First Season.
    (available in ebook, print, and audio)
     
    Contains mature content and themes.
     
    Summary
    What’s your life worth on the open market? 
    A debt collector can tell you precisely. 

    Wraith is a shadow in the night, haunting the bedrooms of the rich “high potentials” who have stolen life energy from the desperate and dying. The justice and the sweet mercy hit that follow keep her from falling into her own personal abyss. Her secret nighttime work also keeps her on level for her real mission: carrying on her father’s legacy of attempting to bring an end to debt collection as a whole. But when a mysterious debt collector interrupts her in the act and discovers her secret, everything Wraith loves may be destroyed by the one thing she can never fix—the original sin of being a debt collector herself. 

    Wraith is approximately 17,000 words or 68 pages, and is the first of nine episodes in the second season of The Debt Collector serial. This dark and gritty future-noir is about a world where your life-worth is tabulated on the open market and going into debt risks a lot more than your credit rating. 

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    It is recommended that you start with the first season, but each season is a complete story for that debt collector and can serve as an entry point to the series. There are five planned seasons in the Debt Collector series, the first four each from the perspective of a different debt collector with the fifth season bringing all four together. 

    PRE-ORDER
    Complete  Season Two
    releases 12.15

    READING ORDER 
    Season One – Lirium 
    (Episodes 1-9: Delirium, Agony, Ecstasy, Broken, Driven, Fallen, Promise, Ruthless, Passion ) 

    Season Two – Wr aith 
    10 – Wraith (10.20)
    11 – Specter  (10.27)
    12 – Menace (11.3)
    13 – Temptation (11.10)
    14 – Shattered (11.17)
    15 – Untitled (11.24)
    16 – Untitled (12.1)
    17 – Untitled (12.8)
    18 – Untitled (12.15)
    BOX SET (Vol 10-18)  – (12.15)

    “The street-smart science of LOOPER meets the cold, just-the-facts voice of DOUBLE INDEMNITY in this edgy, future-noir thriller that will have you holding your breath, looking over your shoulder, and begging for more.” —Leigh Talbert Moore, author of The Truth About Faking, The Truth About Letting Go, and Rouge
     

My new collection suit weighs less than a shadow on my skin, and my soft-soled boots don’t even whisper as I creep across the thick, yielding carpet of my target’s apartment. With the best bullet-resistant synthetics money can buy, the black curve-hugging suit makes me look more like female-special-forces than someone’s hot date for the night. It raised the bellman’s eyebrows, but an untraceable debit card got me waved through the lobby, no problem. Money buys a lot of things. Access to one of the highest-security luxury buildings in LA. A ninety-fifth-floor apartment high above the smog-soaked city, complete with all the clean air you can breathe. And the no-doubt illegal collection of ivory-handled daggers I passed on the way in. It’s too bad for data-mining mogul Adrien Odel that money can’t buy your way out of a blackened soul.
    I know.
    I’ve tried.
    And tonight I’ve come to collect a debt he doesn’t even think he owes.
    Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of Odel’s apartment, the city is lit up with a nighttime electric haze, the kind that makes it look seedy even in the high-rent district. It’s the perfect backdrop for a