The Triskelion Security Series is written by a duo of authors under the handle K.T. Samois, and follows the seven Araby sisters along with a gang of scrappy mercenaries into the bowls of contemporary organized crime.
The first book, No Time for Caution debuted on May 1st 2021, with a prequel novella Betrayer shortly after, and the second book planned for the second half of 2021.
No Time for Caution starts with Riona Araby as a barista with a well-connected family, an active imagination, a dirty book tucked under her pillow, and a secret desire to meet Master Right. Captain Hardin, once of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group and now of no fixed address, has blood on his hands and a price on his head. His past collides with her present in the form of exes a bit more vengeful (and resourceful) than the usual. Just a bit.
Betrayer picks up in Hardin's old days of assassinations, interrogations, and trespassing. What he encounters in a supposedly routine mission shocks him into throwing every scrap of security he had in his mercenary life.
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The Triskelion Security Series contains examples of:
- Contract on the Hitman: Hardin's having to dodge a few sketchy assassins in the first chapter alone. It doesn't go well for the other dudes ...
- Cool Big Sis: Evie, Sile. Also Ree to Moira.
- Curious Qualms of Conscience: Hardin most notably in the prequel; you get the sense he's been in the same place of a fixer and hasn't hesitated taking out civilians before. There's other instances in the main series.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Hardin, natch. You kind of expect it with the genre.
- Good Is Not Nice: Evie, one of Ree's sisters. She's whimsical and capricious in equal parts during her Big Damn Heroes moment.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Hardin's a mercenary and a former interrogator with a checkered love history, to say the least. Even still, his time with Ree shows another side to the man.
- Hired Guns: We meet Hardin's old squad by the end of the first book.
- Lethal Chef: Ree.
- Light Is Not Good: J's penthouse is a solid maze of white and mirrors, even disorienting special-forces trained operatives.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Hardin has a particularly morbid (and funny) line regarding to this, in an argument with Ree.
- Only in It for the Money: Our main love interest is a lone mercenary by the time we meet him in the first book. He runs on this trope for a while.
- Storming the Castle: Played with - Hardin and his squad rappelling up the side of J's penthouse is a modern version.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Somehow Ree and Hardin assemble a team that runs on this trope. One gets the sense we'll see them in action in Book 2...
