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    Miss Stake: Veronica Benoit The Miss Series, #1
    Miss Stake: Veronica Benoit The Miss Series, #1
    Miss Stake: Veronica Benoit The Miss Series, #1
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    Miss Stake: Veronica Benoit The Miss Series, #1

    By CG Powell

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    Alligators, snakes, and old boyfriends...Oh my.  The swamp is a dangerous place, but it’s nothing Veronica can’t handle.  That is until a weekend in the marshes brings to light a whole new set of dangers.  Now that the supernatural cat is out of the bag, Veronica’s life will never be the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCG Powell
    Release dateFeb 9, 2015
    ISBN9781507037539
    Miss Stake: Veronica Benoit The Miss Series, #1

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      Miss Stake - CG Powell

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      When Tango asked if I wanted to go out for a snowball, I assumed that meant in his truck, not the USS Sink-and-Swim.

      Explain to me again why we’re taking the pirogue instead of The Great Wildebeest?  Arms over my head, I grumbled as I helped Tango carry the pirogue to the edge of the water.

      The Great Wildebeest, as you call it, has a broken A/C.  I thought it’d be cooler to take the boat.  There’ll be shade and a breeze every now and then.

      This was not the first time Tango’s 1990 F150 sat silent in my driveway while we heaved the boat out to the water.  That blue beast of his had me walking the roadsides to get to school on more than one occasion.  Nonetheless, he had a blue beast and offered to tote me places which was more than I had at the present—not that my parents couldn’t afford to buy me a car.  My mom was a lawyer and my dad owned half the shrimp factories in the surrounding parishes with his brother.

      They wanted to use the whole car thing as a life lesson—you can’t appreciate what you have if it’s always given to you.  Some things I needed to earn on my own, and a car was one of them.  Where was this life lesson when my brothers started to drive?  I think the real life lesson here was to never be the only girl or the youngest.  I happened to be both.

      You would have thought after four boys my parents would have just stopped.  I’m a testament to the Benoit family tenacity.  And with all of my brothers either married or at college, I was the only one left for them to dote on.  Yay, me.

      Hot was the first thought that came to mind when I turned to the side and hung my legs over the edge of the pirogue.  Muggy would be the next as I laid back, took a deep breath, and stuck my toes in the warm swamp water.  The clouds rolled in from the gulf like they did every day, promising our usual afternoon shower.  My mind wandered as I guessed what animal shape would appear next, completely ignoring the sound of Tango’s voice.

      Tango prodded me with the paddle and pointed to the ripple in the water where two eyes stared back at me. Ronnie, um...Ronnie.  Veronica, Big Head’s coming. You might want to get all of your appendages back in the boat.

      Damn gator, I huffed, pulled my legs in and slapped the water with my paddle until his eyes submerged below.

      Big Head had been terrorizing this part of the bayou since I was a kid.  Ironically, he’d also managed to stay hidden from hunters every gator season.  God knows how old he was, but one thing was

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