Dirty Kisses (The Lion and Mouse series #1) Stuffed Animal Crafts Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden

Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize

Phoebe Graves grew up in a family where deception and seduction are as commonplace as breathing

Ada Bunting is a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados who arrives in Panama as a stowaway alongside thousands of other West Indians seeking work

and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture

yet despite an extensive search

Dirty Kisses (The Lion and Mouse series #1) Stuffed Animal Crafts Winner of the 2024 HawthorndenSomeone killed Rumi, the Russian Mafia's top washer in New York. Kazimir, the head of the Bratva, has come to NY to find the murderer. They call him The Russian Lion, known for having over two hundred kills. By the age of twenty, the FBI placed him ten steps away from Usama Bin Laden on the Most Wanted List. To kill his washer begins a dark and deadly war. Unfortunately, Emily falls on Kazimir's radar. Her brother is suspected of being involved in the