“You can’t leave,” he protested. “You’re a witness. I’ll need a statement—”
“I have to go to work.” She dug in a pocket, extracted a battered card and held it out.
Alex accepted it, but that didn’t stop him from trying again as she lifted a foot to a pedal with clear intent to push off. “I can call your employer and explain—”
Her smile silenced him. The grin had been engaging, but the smile—had he thought her ordinary? He blinked. Tried to remember what he’d meant to say, but before he could she said, “You can’t call the muse. It calls you.”
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Buy Relatively Risky: The Big Uneasy 1
Other Books by Pauline Baird Jones
Available in print, digital and audio.
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Romantic Suspense
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The Big Uneasy Series:
Relatively Risky (1)
Family Treed (1.5)
Sucker Punch (2.0) - 2015
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Lonesome Lawmen Series:
The Last Enemy
Byte Me
Missing You
Lonesome Mama (Bonus short story)
(The Lonesome Lawmen is also available as a digital bundle)
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Do Wah Diddy Die
The Spy Who Kissed Me
A Dangerous Dance
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Science Fiction Romance/Paranormal
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Out of Time
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An Uneasy Future:
Core Punch: A Baker & Ban!drn Adventure
Sucker Punch: A Baker & Ban!drin Adventure - 2015
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Project Universe Series:
The Key
Girl Gone Nova
Tangled in Time
Steamrolled
Kicking Ashe
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Short Story Collections
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Project Enterprise: The Short Stories
The Mystery Collection
Let’s Fall in Love
Take a Chance on Me
About the Author
Pauline Baird Jones had a tough time with reality from the get-go. After “schooling” from four, yes FOUR brothers, she knew that some people needed love and others needed shooting. Pauline figured she could do both. Romantic suspense was the logical starting point, but there were more worlds to explore, more rules to break and minds to bend. She grabbed her pocket watch and time travel device and dove through the wormhole into the world of science fiction and even some Steampunk.
Now she wanders among the genres, trying a little of this and a lot of that, rampaging through her characters’ lives like Godzilla—because she does love her peril (when it’s not happening to her). Never fear, she gives her characters happy endings. Well, the good characters. The bad ones get justice.
For more information…
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Acknowledgments
I’d like to acknowledge the assistance —both as an editor and for her world-building/flight dynamics insights—of Alexis Glynn Latner. Her invaluable assistance has made this book possible. Her help was much appreciated.
I’d also like to acknowledge my son, Nathan, who was my weather/How New Orleans Might Be in the Future consultant for this novel. His ideas on how to make my characters suffer were spot on and oddly cathartic.
My thanks to Ana Baird for her keen copyediting eye and unfailing support. :-)
I’d also like to thank Elizabeth Vargas for her innovative cover design. No project is complete without great packaging. :-)
I would be remiss if I also didn’t acknowledge my family—who suffers through my flights of fancy—and my readers—who stick with me through my flights of fancy. :-)
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder, except for brief quotations used in a review.
This is a work of fiction, and is produced from the author’s imagination. People, places, and things mentioned in this story are used in a fictional manner.
Cover art image sources NASA (creative commons license) and Shutterstock (licensed). Repurposed and altered by Elizabeth Vargas.
Copyright © 2014 Pauline Baird Jones
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-9960566-9-4
ISBN: 978-0-9960566-9-4
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