Lesbian self-defence expert and freelance crime fighter Aud Torvingen has trained herself to achieve a fierce, machine-like precision, in hand-to-hand combat as well as life. But in Always she is abruptly confronted with the limits of her own power. Her self-defence classes spin violently out of her grasp and, still reeling from the consequences, she embarks on a seemingly simple investigation of Seattle real estate fraud that pulls her into something far more complicated and dangerous than she had imagined.

Six-foot-tall self-defense instructor Aud Torvingen finds her job called into question when her techniques are used for less than honorable purposes, a situation that is complicated by a case involving a real-estate fraud that turns out to be more dangerous than expected. By the author of Stay. Reprint.

2008-08-16 Story continious...Just read

Oh yeah, totallu worth reading.
Self-defence class chapters will teach you a lot, will make you think of your own safety, even taking self-defence class because you never know.
But you can get a lot of tip
Want to find out more of Aud. We are all can seem strong characters but we are vulnerable even if we don't like this or hate to admit it.
You will see Aud from different prospective, from different angle of view which is perfectly portraid.

Novel that won't disappoint you, as Nicola Griffith wrote it.

It really makes to want more of Aud...what happens next with her in the next book...?
Just need to wait and maybe Nicola will give to us... I sure hope it happens.