the FLAME series

Nikki is currently working on the first two novels in the Flame series, starring Emerson Carter as New York City's most unconventional assassin.  Nikki has completed first drafts of Book 1: Spark and Book 2: Glow, and is hard at work revising them both.

About Flame, Book 1: Spark...
Finally, Emerson seems to have everything she has always wanted--a stable life at home, a fulfilling marriage, and no reason to get embroiled in the kinds of messy situations she got into when she was younger.  But when her husband, Josh, is the victim of a crime that leaves him paralyzed, the life Emerson has built for herself begins to crumble.  Now it's up to her to pay the bills and care for Josh, so when Lieutenant William Finn, a celebrated but crooked cop Emerson has known since her teenage years, offers her an unsavory job that pays handsomely, she can't turn it down.  Now, as she learns the ropes of being a hitwoman for hire, Emerson's web of lies grows more complicated by the day.  But she can convince herself that she's only doing Finn's dirty work because she's being paid to...until Finn tells her that he knows who's responsible for Josh's condition.  Emerson, the daughter of a murderer herself, soon begins to wonder if killing is in her blood...