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    A Date With Death
    A Date With Death
    A Date With Death
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    A Date With Death

    By Louisa Bacio

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    Death sucks. It’s boring, and there’s no chance of getting laid. Stuck in the waiting room of Heaven, Maise fantasizes about all the pleasures of the flesh she didn’t get to experience. When she discovers a business card for the dating service, 1Night Stand, she wonders if there’s still a chance.

    Reece normally wouldn’t consider being set up, but after his brother buys him a certificate, he feels obligated. A romantic night on the Southern California coast, with the full-of-life Maise leaves him wanting more.

    Will a 1Night Stand be enough to overcome death?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateAug 23, 2012
    ISBN9781613333631
    A Date With Death
    Author

    Louisa Bacio

    A Southern California native, Louisa Bacio can’t imagine living far away from the ocean. The multi-published author of erotic romance enjoys writing within all realms – from short stories to full-length novels. Bacio shares her household with a supportive husband, two daughters growing “too fast,” and a multitude pet craziness: Two dogs, five fish tanks, an aviary, hamsters, rabbits and hermit crabs. In her other life, she teaches college classes in English, journalism and popular culture. Check out the latest happenings via her blog http://louisabacio.blogspot.com

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      A Date With Death - Louisa Bacio

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement (including infringement without monetary gain) is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in, or encourage, the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      A Date With Death

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 by Louisa Bacio

      ISBN: 978-1-61333-363-1

      Cover art by Mina Carter

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work, in whole or in part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

      Published by Decadent Publishing Company, LLC

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      A Date with Death

      A 1Night Stand Story

      By

      Louisa Bacio

      ~DEDICATION~

      Grazie to hubby for your continued support, my Preternaturals writing group & Saritza for your insights.

      Special thanks goes to Heather for welcoming me to the Decadent crew.

      Chapter One

      Whatever the cliché about death, it didn’t become her. Pale, shocked, dead.

      Maise finished touching up her pink lip gloss and shut the compact with a sharp snap of the plastic.

      Virgin. She’d died a virgin. What the hell? It wasn’t like Maise had saved herself for marriage; sex never happened in her twenty-four living years. Look what good it did her.

      As she paced the waiting area outside Judgment Room, Maise Dickens—yes, her parents thought they were witty—registered every detail, from the marble floor to the brass and glass flower stands bracketing the stairs behind the desk, the ornate carvings of Jezebels and cherubs gracing the handrail as it curled up, out of sight. She continued to walk, flashing to those instances when she coulda, and now it looked like, shoulda, but hadn’t.

      James, her high school boyfriend, had done his best to get into her pants. She’d let him

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