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USA TODAY BESTSELLING WRITER Dean Wesley Smith returns to his most popular series that features the superhero Poker Boy and all his sidekicks.
Poker Boy once again finds himself facing the task of saving someone. But this person seems to be a ghost.
Can a simple poker player give a ghost a reason to live? If anyone can do it, Poker Boy can, all between hands of cards on a great Saturday night.
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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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A Night With a Forgotten God - Dean Wesley Smith
USA TODAY BESTSELLING WRITER Dean Wesley Smith returns to his most popular series that features the superhero Poker Boy and all his sidekicks.
Poker Boy once again finds himself facing the task of saving someone. But this person seems to be a ghost.
Can a simple poker player give a ghost a reason to live? If anyone can do it, Poker Boy can, all between hands of cards on a great Saturday night.
CHAPTER ONE
YOU WOULD THINK that with all my varied superpowers, I would have one that would warn me when a really good night was about to turn into something else. Just a tingling, maybe a little buzz behind one ear, something.
But nope.
This Saturday night started off as normal as a Saturday night gets for a superhero working for the gods of gambling.
I was playing in a great no-limit game in the poker room at Spirit Winds casino. Since I was Poker Boy, and playing poker was what I also did for a living between rescuing people and saving the world, finding a good game with decent players on a Saturday night was about as good as it came.
The noise from the nearby casino was a steady background sound of people
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