"From Canadian literary dynamo Lindsay Wong, horror collides with dark comedy when a young woman signs her life away in the ancient Chinese tradition of corpse marriage to pay a lifelong debt and bury a dark secret in her past. Locinda has a debt to pay -- and the clock is ticking. Desperate to outrun her mistakes and financial woes, she signs a contract with a nefarious company, Joyful Coffin & Co. Matchmaking Services, to be a bride in the Afterlife to the highest bidder. Locinda is blindfolded, drugged, and smuggled underground into the caves where her training coffin awaits. All that's left to do now is submit to her fate and renounce her past life by dying a nameless nobody. Only one problem: A fellow corpse-spouse-in-training Guanting, recognizes her on day one. He clocks her right away as the granddaughter of Baozhai, the feared and revered Villain Hitter -- a powerful witch. Though Locinda is running from her ghosts, Guanting is in need of a potent curse, and as their wedding burials loom, she's the only one who can help him. Even if it means delving into her grandmother's past life -- from Shangba, Guangzhou province, China in the 1920s to Hong Kong in the 40s -- as well as facing her own haunted past. Amid visits from unwelcome spirits, a rude awakening from her undead sister, and between curses so vicious they'd make your blood curdle, Locinda begins to learn that secrets aren't anything like a dead body -- they scream to be heard, and they refuse to stay buried. Written in prose so sharp it snaps like a whip, Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies will have you shielding your eyes from rotting corpses one moment and cackling at the sardonic wit of malicious ghosts and gods of misfortune the next. It's a masterwork in fiction that cements Lindsay Wong as one of the finest writers of literary horror of our time"-- Provided by publisher.