Vampire Alexis Black will do anything to earn back her human soul - even if things get bloodier before they get better. Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Halfway to the Grave in this fast-paced urban fantasy where a reluctant vampire assassin teams up with a human sidekick to hunt the undead-and outrun her own dark nature. Alexis Black never wanted to be a vampire, so when an angel-with-an-attitude offers her an ironclad contract to become human again, she signs without reading the fine print. Too bad it didn't mention the badass vampire who now rides shotgun in her brain, her new insatiable bloodlust, or the I-hate-everything-with-fangs human sidekick she's stuck with.Her job: kill one vampire, werewolf, or creepy-crawly every night for fifty years. The reward for killing without conscience? Her humanity.The punishment for refusal? Her death. But when a revenge-seeking bloodsucker threatens to turn her city into an all-you-can-suck buffet, Alexis must risk everything to ensure there's a humanity to return to. Her vampire nature is her greatest weapon-and her greatest curse. To save the people she loves, she'll have to embrace the monster within. Evil's Unlikely Assassin is the first book in the award-winning Alexis Black Novels, an urban fantasy packed with everything that makes the genre great: attitude, action, and ass-kicking. - Jaye Wells, USA Today bestselling author of The Sabina Kane and Prospero's War series