Blackjack

Rica Marin is a freelance spy taking on assignments in a post-apocalyptic, post-United States, Balkanized assortment of small and warring countries. In this book, she goes to work for the Chief of Sierra, a country that includes Lake Tahoe, spying on the powerful Coleman clan, owners of Blackjack casino. It just happens that Rica is also a torch singer, and gets a job in the casino's lounge. She soon finds herself dealing with an assortment of villains and heroes, and on top of everything, falling in love with one of the Colemans. This is the first in the Blackjack trilogy and although the hardcover and the audiobook show the author as Lee Singer, the soon-to-be-released e-book will show her as Shelley Singer. The title will also be slightly changed to Torch Song, book one in the Blackjack Trilogy. The e-book publisher is BooksBNimble.