Deception's Edge

by Nannette Potter

256 pages, Hardcover

Published August 30, 2025

About the author

Nannette Potter is the award-winning author of the Blade Broussard international thriller series. An adventuress at heart, she lives vicariously through her fearless and impetuous characters who balance their lives on a knife’s edge. When not writing, Nannette treasures time with family and travels the globe, where she dreams up future high-stakes conspiracies. She lives with her soulmate and husband Mark in California’s Central Valley, where she’s an active member of Sisters in Crime and Central Valley Fiction Writers.

Reviews

[litandcoffee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Potter delivers a high-stakes thriller that fuses espionage, faith, and personal loss into a tense, emotionally charged story. Knife-thrower Blade Broussard is hunting Alec Quinn, the man she blames for her mother’s death. But when her friend Chase Maserati is captured in North Korea, she joins a secret rescue mission with the Soldati di Cristo, a clandestine Christian brotherhood. Disguised and watched at every turn, Blade must reach Chase before his execution. She is unaware that Alec is there too, and that others are hunting her.

The novel tracks multiple threads: Blade’s unraveling psyche, Chase’s brutal imprisonment, and Alec’s slow descent into paranoia as his criminal empire begins to erode. Potter doesn’t waste time easing the reader in. One minute, Blade is wiping blood from her lips after a bar brawl. Next, she’s dodging a black SUV on her Ducati. The pace is sharp, the stakes high, and the violence cuts deep without feeling gratuitous. But this is more than a thriller. Potter explores the murky space between justice and vengeance, duty and obsession. The result is a story that delivers both high-octane action and genuine pathos. Un-put-downable.