Fragile Creatures follows several intertwining stories of love, crime, betrayal, and murder.

From the outside, Scarlett Laurent’s life looks perfect; she has a beautiful home, a successful fiancé, and a noble career as a hospice nurse. But under the surface, she feels adrift and longs to do more for her patients than simply watch them fade and pass. So when a mysterious patient asks her to assist with his suicide to avoid a painful death, Scarlett seizes the opportunity to finally make a difference. But breaking her oath as a nurse is no easy feat, and unfortunately for her, that’s just the start of her problems.

 
Thief Luca Messetti is fresh out of prison and on the hunt for the man responsible for putting him there—the business partner who betrayed him. The first step of his plan is to scour LA’s underbelly and extract information from an array of colorful characters from his past, including a crooked LAPD homicide detective. Luca will stop at nothing to get his revenge, and he’s willing to intimidate, blackmail, and even murder anyone that stands in his way. But digging up old skeletons comes at a cost.

Slick talking Anton Sidorov has just moved back to LA, after spending several years in New York, working his way up the Russian mob. But things have changed since he left; his old girlfriend is about to marry someone else, and the new LA boss is a psychopath with a special hatred in her heart just for Anton. Forced to carry out low-level, high-risk jobs, Anton must do whatever it takes to survive long enough to prove himself.

In a twisted game of fate, these worlds collide in a symphony of violence, exposing dark secrets and lies, and revealing just how fragile one can become.

Coupling the taut suspense of a Paula Hawkins novel with the gritty, atmospheric potency of Dennis Lehane’s early work, this dynamic thriller is impossible to put down.