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by Smith, Dean Wesley


  She turned to Elliot. “Dinner, wine, hot tub, and sex. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate dying, can you?”

  “Nothing comes to mind better than that,” Elliot said, smiling at her. “I don’t expect you want me to think about any other options, do you?”

  “Not a chance,” Deanna said, laughing. “Let’s go. You pick the restaurant, I’ll pick the wine.”

  And as they jumped back to Vegas, Deanna thought she heard just as they left the beeping stop, to be replaced by a level, steady sound.

  She was dead.

  She was alive.

  She was free.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres.

  At the moment he produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and a superhero series starring Poker Boy.

  His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month.

  During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.

  He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.

  Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series.

  For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please go to www.deanwesleysmith.com, www.smithsmonthly.com or www.fictionriver.com.

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  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  The Atlantis Fifty

  Don’t Rust on Me Now

  An Easy Shot

  CHAPTER FOUR

  CHAPTER FIVE

  CHAPTER SIX

  Long Dead New Love

  ONE

  TWO

  THREE

  Shopping Cart Lover

  Heaven Painted as a Free Meal

  SECTION ONE

  ONE

  TWO

  THREE

  FOUR

  FIVE

  SIX

  SEVEN

  EIGHT

  NINE

  SECTION TWO

  TEN

  ELEVEN

  TWELVE

  THIRTEEN

  SECTION THREE

  FOURTEEN

  FIFTEEN

  SIXTEEN

  SECTION FOUR

  SEVENTEEN

  EIGHTEEN

  NINETEEN

  TWENTY

  TWENTY-ONE

  SECTION FIVE

  TWENTY-TWO

  TWENTY-THREE

  TWENTY-FOUR

  TWENTY-FIVE

  SECTION SIX

  TWENTY-SIX

  TWENTY-SEVEN

  TWENTY-EIGHT

  TWENTY-NINE

  THIRTY

  SECTION SEVEN

  THIRTY-ONE

  THIRTY-TWO

  Subscription Information

  About the Author

  Acknowledgements

  Copyright Information

 

 

 


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