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    Heartache

    By Leslie Claire Walker

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    About this ebook

    Former femme fatale Alice thought she had it made. No more fairies. No more magic. But just when she thought she'd gotten out, the Otherworld pulls her back in--into a double-crossing, twisted tale of kidnapping and vengeful rivals. She'll need all her wits to survive. She'll need heart, too. Too bad she doesn't have one.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSecret Fire Press
    Release dateDec 6, 2012
    ISBN9781301686773
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    Heartache
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    Leslie Claire Walker

    I live in the lush (humid and green) and darkly magical (crazy insane) bayou country of southeast Texas with various companions, including a Doggie Ranger and two cats, one older and distinguished and the other young with hellion ambitions. I am a legal secretary by day and a fiction writer at all other times. In my rare spare minutes, I play the lever harp (mostly Irish tunes) and enjoy gluten-free baking adventures. I write in the fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and young adult genres. I love to sit in my writing chair in the early mornings with the world's biggest mug of coffee and have no idea where the story will take me next. My fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Chiaroscuro, Electric Velocipede, GUD Magazine, and DAW Books anthologies.

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