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    The Keeper of the Morals
    The Keeper of the Morals
    The Keeper of the Morals
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    The Keeper of the Morals

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    Do you really need a lack of morals to climb the corporate ladder?

    What happens if the morals you used to cherish get taken by the women you love?

    A story by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith of love, greed, corporate ladders, and blondes.

    Lots of blondes.

    “The Keeper of the Morals” was first published in the anthology Wizards, Inc. from Daw Books edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Loren L. Coleman.

    Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and hundreds of published short stories.

    His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.

    Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

    Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He is now executive editing for Fiction River.

    Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateJul 14, 2010
    ISBN9781452327150
    The Keeper of the Morals
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    Dean Wesley Smith

    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 several 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, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. 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 visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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    The Keeper of the Morals - Dean Wesley Smith

    The Keeper of the Morals

    Dean Wesley Smith

    The Keeper of the Morals

    Copyright © 2013 by Dean Wesley Smith

    Published by WMG Publishing

    Cover Design copyright © 2013 WMG Publishing

    Cover art copyright Konradbak/Dreamstime

    The Keeper of the Morals was first published in the anthology Wizards, Inc.

    from Daw Books edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Loren L. Coleman.

    Smashwords Edition

    This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved.

    This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

    This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

    Chapter One

    I nursed the scotch-rocks like it was the last drink I was ever going to have instead of just the first for the night, twirling the glass and the golden liquid on its paper napkin like a kid’s toy. More than likely, it was going to be the drink I remembered most in a long line of drinks, followed by picking up some blonde — they were always blondes — and taking her back to my big house in my Porsche for some fast, sloppy sex and then uncomfortable good-byes.

    Around me, the party atmosphere of the Danny’s Crib Lounge, combined with the music from too many speakers, kept the noise level just under that of a jet taking off. I had been lucky tonight to find a place at the bar. Usually I ended up standing, drink in hand, pretending to actually talk to someone I mostly couldn’t hear.

    But tonight was special. That’s what my six co-workers from the legal department had told me. I had closed negotiations on one of the company’s biggest deals today, opening up a wildlife refuge for my company’s oil rigs to go in and drill. Tomorrow, when the news got out, our stock would shoot up, the left-wing environmentalists would cry, I would get a bonus, and then I would go back to work on the next big deal.

    But tonight I got to celebrate.

    But I didn’t feel like celebrating anything.

    Thirty-six years old and I had no idea

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