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Enter the world of the Avengers' iconic master spy Natasha Romanoff is one of the world's most lethal assassins. Trained from a young age in the arts of death and deception, Natasha was given the title of Black Widow by Ivan Somodorov, her brutal teacher at the Red Room, Moscow's infamous academy for operatives.Ava Orlova is just trying to fit in as an average Brooklyn teenager, but her life has been anything but average.The daughter of a missing Russian quantum physicist, Ava was once subjected to a series of ruthless military experiments-until she was rescued by Black Widow and placed under S.H.I.E.L.D. protection. Ava has always longed to reconnect with her mysterious savior, but Black Widow isn't really the big sister type.Until now.When children all over Eastern Europe begin to go missing, and rumors of smuggled Red Room tech light up the dark net, Natasha suspects her old teacher has returned-and that Ava Orlova might be the only one who can stop him.
About the Author
Margaret Stohl is the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and DANGEROUS CREATURES novels, the author of the New York Times bestselling BLACK WIDOW: FOREVER RED and BLACK WIDOW: RED VENGEANCE from Marvel Press (Marvel YA) , and of the ICONS Novels. As of November 2016, she is also the author of the MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL comics from Marvel Comics. Find more about here at mstohl.com - @mstohl on twitter - margaret_stohl at instagram - margaret_stohl on snapchat.
Margaret is the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Indie-Bound, Wall Street Journal and Internationally Bestselling author of ten YA novels, and has been published in 37 languages and 48 countries. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was adapted into a film (2013) by Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment, and was an ALA William C. Morris YA Debut Award finalist in 2010, as well as a SCIBA award finalist, a NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and a YALSA Teen Top Ten Pick. Beautiful Creatures was named the #1 Teen Pick from Amazon in 2009, and the #5 Editors Pick, Overall. Margaret has always loved reading, and is the co-founder of YALLFEST (Charleston, SC) and YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA) , two of the biggest kid/teen book festivals in the country.
Prior to becoming an author, Margaret worked in the video game industry as a writer and lead designer for sixteen years, eventually co-founding 7 Studios game developer with her husband, Lewis Peterson. She still writes for games when she has time.
An alumnus of Amherst College, Stanford University, and Yale University, Margaret lives in Santa Monica with her husband, three children, and two rescue cats. (In fact, you can read about them in CATS VS ROBOTS: THIS IS WAR, forthcoming from Katherine Tegan Books at Harper Collins.)
