Rule 25: Don't Fall
For The Target

RULE 25: DON’T FALL FOR THE TARGET is a YA romance spy fiction novel set in Phelps Wisconsin. When Autumn gets her first solo mission, she never thought she would need to add another rule to her family manifesto. After meeting Kato, she's not so sure.

When Autumn Alderidge was a child, she wasn’t yelled at for stealing cookies, she was yelled at for getting caught stealing cookies. Rule number one is don’t get caught.

There are 24 rules in total - the family manifesto - that control her life. She knew them before she knew how to spell her own name.

Born into the head of one of the world's four largest crime families, that deal with everything from theft to assasination, Autumn received birthday gifts like trained assassins chasing her for forty-eight hours, and lessons on how to use a bear gun. At age eight, she knew she was to marry a boy from the head of another large crime family that rules over Russia, Dimitri Daxterov.

But at seventeen, the 24 rules that have run her life since birth start to feel confining, instead of guiding, when she meets Kato, the boy she’s supposed to be targeting for her first solo mission.