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Charlie Fox was no good at being the nice girl her parents wanted, so she joined the British Army and acquired a whole new set of skills. And just when she thought she’d found her calling, she was dishonoured, disgraced, discharged.

Now she puts those painful, hard-won lessons to good use, teaching self-defence to battered women in a local refuge―passing on the finer points of breaking bones when running simply isn’t an option.

Her abilities come in even handier when she takes a security job on the doors at the New Adelphi, a hot nightclub with a charismatic owner.

And they come in handiest of all when her work brings her to the attention of a vicious rapist who’s stalking women at both the nightclub and the refuge. Will those skills be enough to save her―and those she cares about most?