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
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About the Author
Acknowledgements
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