Nobuddies

At the age of twenty, Kurt and Flare could have reached a carefree life of luxury on Boston's Hedge Fund Row thanks to the lucrative extortion of a Wall Street banker, if Kurt's sister Karla had not fallen in love with Flare and lured her into her dark orbit with the promise of helping her raid the banker's entire family fortune. But, Flare quickly asserts her new self as the sorceress' apprentice from hell, piling schemes upon strategies, shortcuts atop quick fixes, pitting allies against friends, until miniscule mistakes make her wanton construct implode into a bloody vortex. The decisive move is Kurt's to make. Can he trust his sister's desperate promises, or is she sacrificing him to save herself? Can he steal Flare back from her new handlers? And even if Kurt succeeds, will Flare be his lover again or will she be his killer? Either way, Kurt is thrust upon a perilous path to discover his final fate. Dense, fast paced, and multi-directional, NOBUDDIES is a provocative and philosophical tale noir.