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The Florentine Exchange

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by Dayle A Dermatis


  Called “a nail-biter” by Publisher’s Weekly, her thriller story “The Scent of Amber and Vanilla” received an honorable mention in The Year’s Best Crime & Mystery 2016.

  Considered to be the mastermind behind the Uncollected Anthology project, she also edits anthologies, and her own short fiction has been lauded in year’s best anthologies in erotica, mystery, and horror.

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  Also by Dayle A. Dermatis

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  The Nikki Ashbourne Novels

  Ghosted

  Shaded (forthcoming)

  Spectered (forthcoming)

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  Standalone Novels

  Beautiful Beast

  Waking the Witch

  What Beck’ning Ghost

  Collections

  Devilish Deals and Perilous Pacts: A Spooky Collection of Deals With the Devil and Other Bad Choices

  Five Funny Fantasies

  Haunted (a Nikki Ashburne collection, forthcoming)

  Small Wonders: Ten Short-Short Speculative Fiction Stories

  Umberto Scolari and the Five Mysteries: A Short Story Collection

  Voices Carry and Other Stories of Women and Crime

  Written on the Coast: Thirteen Stories of Magic and Mayhem Written in Lincoln City, OR

  Nonfiction

  Researching History for Fantasy Writers: How to Use Historical Detail to Make Your Fantasy Worlds Rich and Compelling

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  The Florentine Exchange

  A Page-Turning Spy Story Full of Twists and Turns

  Dayle A. Dermatis

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  Electronic edition published 2021 by Soul’s Road Press

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  Copyright © Dayle A. Dermatis. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction, in whole or in part in any form, without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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  “The Florentine Exchange” originally appeared in Fiction River Special Edition: Spies, 2019, and was reprinted in Voices Carry, and Other Stories of Women and Crime, 2020.

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