The Girl on the Edge of Summer

by J. M. Redmann

  I needed to move as far as I could away from the edge, to build the life I wanted. Someday I’d be at a party and Cordelia and her new partner would be there. I needed to be okay for that day. Not for her, but for me. And I needed it to be just a day, just a passing day. I’d redone my profile on the dating site, made plans to join a book group, to open the world as best I could. To be so much more than okay.

  The doorbell rang.

  “No one loves you if you’re an asshole jerk,” I reminded myself and went to open it.

  About the Author

  J.M. Redmann is the author of a mystery series featuring New Orleans private detective Michele “Micky” Knight. Her novel Ill Will made the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s 2013 Over the Rainbow list. Her previous book, Water Mark, was also on the Over the Rainbow list and won a Foreword Magazine Gold First Place mystery award. Two of her earlier books, The Intersection Of Law & Desire and Death Of A Dying Man, have won Lambda Literary Awards; all but her first book have been nominated. Law & Desire was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book on NPR’s Fresh Air.

  Her books have been translated into Spanish, German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Hebrew. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren of three anthologies, Night Shadows: Queer Horror, Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir, and Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir.

  Redmann lives in an historic neighborhood in New Orleans, at the edge of the area that flooded.

  Visit her website at http://www.jmredmann.com.

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