Before she is given the chance to avenge her family's murder, Stephanie Patrick must become a trained assassin named Petra.
Stephanie Patrick is an agent with Magenta House.She was a
willful teenager just entering college, full of rebellion and wanting
little to do with her family. She knew there was still a lot of love but
she could not bring herself to admit it. When they planned a trip to
Europe and she was expected to go, she fought and used any excuse to
avoid it. This made the trauma of learning the plane had exploded in
flight, killing her entire family, leaving her alone and with tremendous
guilt. She suffered a complete breakdown. To cope, Stephanie turned
to booze and when the money ran out and she needed some way to buy the
liquor to drown the memories, she turned to turning tricks to survive.
It was not long before she no longer really cared if she lived or died.
That was when a man named Proctor showed up and told her plainly and
bluntly that he had proof the explosion, and thus the deaths, was no
accident. Proctor, a freelance writer who wrote travelogues and reviews and the
occasional news article, was kind to her and took her in. He treated her
well, helped her sober up, and did not expect anything in return. When
he was murdered, she suddenly had something to live for......revenge. That
is when she was approached by Magenta House, an ultra-secret
government agency that does not exist. There is no official record of it
nor is there any listing of the agents. The name its people call their
organization is not official, either, as the name refers to the first
building they used when they were established, a run-down forty-year old
leading building that was an anonymous as the people inside. The
purpose of this group is to take the intelligence other departments come
up with. Given a chance to
find the truth and exact revenge, she agrees to work for Magenta
House though their methods seem hardly better than the people she wants
to find.
Printing History
Written by Mark Burnell (1964- )
Harper-Collins
January 2000
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