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by Zane


  Head Bangers

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  A tragic event brings Brooke and Damon together and shows them truths about their toxic relationships, truths they never wanted to accept, demonstrating that sometimes two people meet out of pure chance and it’s . . . a total eclipse of the heart.

  Total Eclipse of the Heart

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  Good sex always does the trick—two women, four men, and two love triangles.

  The Hot Box

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  An ebook original short story about a man and woman suffering serious marital problems with their spouses, who find themselves engaged in a steamy love affair with each other, despite the perils looming at home.

  Everything Fades Away

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  An ebook original short story about a teenage runaway, Noelle Mitchell, who shows up thirteen years later on Christmas and reveals the truth about her absence, a truth that will either tear her family apart or bring them closer together.

  I'll Be Home for Christmas

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  Opening up, gaining trust, tearing down barriers, and having the audacity to love is not easy for Jemistry or Tevin, but they learn together that sometimes that’s what it takes to fall in love, and make it last.

  The Other Side of the Pillow

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  About the Author

  Zane is the New York Times bestselling author of Afterburn, The Heat Seekers, Dear G-Spot, Gettin’ Buck Wild, The Hot Box, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Nervous, Skyscraper, Love Is Never Painless, Shame on It All, and The Sisters of APF; the ebook short stories I’ll be Home for Christmas and Everything Fades Away; and editor for the Flava anthology series, including Z-Rated and Busy Bodies. Her television series, Zane’s Sex Chronicles and The Jump Off, are featured on Cinemax, and her bestselling novel Addicted has been adapted for a major motion picture with Lionsgate Films. She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. Visit her online at EroticaNoir.com.

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  ALSO BY ZANE

  Addicted

  Shame on It All

  The Heat Seekers

  The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth

  Gettin’ Buck Wild: The Sex Chronicles II

  The Sisters of APF

  Nervous

  Skyscraper

  Afterburn

  Love Is Never Painless

  Dear G-Spot: Straight Talk About Sex and Love

  Zane’s The Sex Chronicles

  Head Bangers

  Total Eclipse of the Heart

  The Hot Box

  Everything Fades Away

  I’ll Be Home for Christmas

  The Other Side of the Pillow

  Infinite Words

  EDITED BY ZANE

  Chocolate Flava

  Caramel Flava

  Succulent: Chocolate Flava II

  Honey Flava

  Sensuality: Caramel Flava II

  Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava III

  Busy Bodies: Chocolate Flava IV

  Breaking the Cycle

  Purple Panties

  Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2

  Blackgentlemen.com

  Sistergirls.com

  Another Time, Another Place

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2016 by Zane

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  First Atria Books hardcover edition May 2016

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  Interior design by Paul Dippolito

  Jacket design by Anna Dorfman

  Jacket Photographs © Franklin Thompson/Gallery Stock

  Author Photograph by Hilsdon Photography LLC

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Zane, author.

  Title: Vengeance : a novel / Zane.

  Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2016.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2015041511 (print) | LCCN 2015044581 (ebook) |

  Subjects: LCSH: Revenge—Fiction. | Women singers—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / African American / Erotica. | FICTION / Erotica. | FICTION / Romance / Adult. | GSAFD: Love stories. | Erotic fiction.

  Classification: LCC PS3626.A63 V46 2016 (print) | LCC PS3626.A63 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

  ISBN 978-1-5011-0804-4

  ISBN 978-1-5011-0806-8 (ebook)

  Contents

  Intermittent Explosive Disorder

  Part One: The Verse

  Prologue

  Part Two: The Refrain

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Part Three: The Chorus

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Part Four: The Bridge

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Part Five: Coda

  Epilogue

  Commentary by Zane

  About the Author

 

 

 


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