The Lost Assassin: An Arete Companion Story

by Rae Else

Helena Carras is the Order’s deadliest assassin. Bearer of the full power and heir to the water line, she is used to getting what she wants. In this four part novella, join Helena on her final assassination assignments, and discover how she went from cold-blooded killer to fugitive of the Order and public enemy number one. The Lost Assassin is a 22,000 word companion story to The Arete Series.

81 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 20, 2020

About the author

Rae Else is an Urban Fantasy author, most at home in the spaces between reality and the imaginary. When in the real world, she resides with her husband in Plymouth. The Arete Trilogy is her Young Adult, Urban Fantasy debut. Her upcoming series, The Dark Between, is a decadently dark YA Fantasy, featuring a whole cast of paras - shifters, vamps, witches, mages, fae ... and lots of soul magic.

Rae studied Classics at university and a lot of her stories draw on mythology and ancient worlds. In her twenties, Rae worked as a teacher and now writes full time. When not reading or writing, Rae loves to scuba dive and sail. She finds the big blue to be like a good book – a portal to a different world.

The Lost Assassin novella and two companion e-shorts to The Arete Series can be downloaded for FREE, as well as Doors To The Dead, the companion novella to The Dark Between Series. To grab them, go to http://raeelse.co.uk

Reviews

[PAR · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is the companion novella to The Arete Series it can be read as a standalone novel but the author recommends that it is best read after book 2, The All-Seeing Eye. In my case I didn’t catch this note and read it as a stand alone novel, which really worked fine, I probably missed some of the set up that the author had leading into this novel. This novel provides the reader with a more in depth knowledge of the full gifts and powers that Helena Carras embodied coming to her through the water line. Helena is El’s assassin and his Grandmother. No spoiler but be prepared for some changes in Helena in this novel. Rae Else is a gifted author and you will not go wrong picking up this series. She spins her web and you will be captured from the first page to the last. I gave this honest, voluntary review after being given a free copy of the novel.

[Abbie Riddle · Rating 4 out of 5]

A novela in a series - but I read it as a stand alone. It was interesting.