Barbed Wire Heart

Blurb

An Amazon Best Book of March 2018: As tough as the steel-toed boots she wears, Harley McKenna was raised from a young age to take over her father’s meth-cooking and protectionism racket in rural Oregon. She can shoot with both hands, she can break her way out of a locked car trunk, and she helped dispose of her first body when she was 17. (Chainsaws and lye were involved.) But not everyone in her father's operation thinks Harley should eventually be in charge. While her father is in Mexico, a series of attacks sparks a potential coup inside his organization just as Harley has to beat back her family's longtime nemesis. The gripping action flips between the bloody “lessons” Harley learned as she grew up and the highly orchestrated actions she takes now to rid herself of the competition. Tess Sharpe crafts tension like a veteran, and the fact that this is her debut novel makes the gut-churning windup all the more impressive. Barbed Wire Heartis a hard-hitting thriller with a serrated and feminist bite, and Harley McKenna is a brand-new protagonist whom you'll root for even when you're not sure what her end game truly is. —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review