The feds need Patton gone, and Cassel is just the transformation worker to make him disappear.

But Patton isn’t just a problem for workers – his extremist views could potentially ruin the worker squad the FBI has initiated, and recruited Cassel for. The stakes are especially high in the current political climate – with Governor Patton crusading for segregation between workers and humans, fuelled by his hatred for Cassel’s mother, who used her emotion magick against him. Furthermore, Cassel grew up in a family of con-artist curse-workers with tentative ties to the Zacharov worker crime family – he, of all people, has the most to lose if he jumps the fence and aligns himself with the straight and narrow. Caught between the love he has for a crime boss’ daughter and the deal he has struck with the Feds, to wipe his record clean and keep his paroled mother out of prison.Ĭassel knows that in this world you can’t trust anybody – least of all the ‘good guys’, who often have the most to lose. But that’s exactly where Cassel finds himself, between a rock and a hard place. Ever trusting the members of his con-artist family comes a close second … but by far the worst, most stupid thing he has ever done was to get involved with the Feds. Turning his childhood best friend, and mobster princess, into a white cat to save her life was one of the worst. WARNING: This review contains spoilers of all previous 'Curse Workers' booksĬassel Sharpe has made a lot of mistakes in his life. In a dangerous game and with his life on the line, Cassel may have to make his biggest gamble yet - this time on love. When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to sort out what's a con and what's truth. And he's trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he's been raised to believe the government is the enemy.īut with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob and new secrets coming to light, the line between what's right and what's wrong becomes increasingly blurred. He's trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. He's trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. The stunning conclusion to the Curseworkers series finds Cassel in the most dangerous con of all and with this life on the line he may be forced to make his biggest gamble yet.Ĭassel Sharpe knows he's been used as an assassin, but he's trying to put all that behind him.

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