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    In His Line of Work
    In His Line of Work
    In His Line of Work
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    In His Line of Work

    By Tinnean

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    Deuce Pettigrew has worked for the mysterious Dr. Pandora Gautier since he left the Marines twelve years before. He did whatever needed to be done and never asked questions.

    Now a previous mission is coming back to bite Deuce in the ass, and not in a good way. As a result, he needs to distance himself not only from the job that consumed him for so many years, but from the man who, unaware, owns his heart.

    Deuce decides to go home, but can he go home again? And will he ever find a man who means as much as the one he has to leave behind?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateMar 13, 2016
    ISBN9781634860796
    In His Line of Work
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    Tinnean

    I’ve been writing since the 3rd grade. I was on the staff of my high school magazine, and then... I got married. There was a long interval when raising my kids took preference, although I would scribble sci fi, contemporary, or paranormal stories with very strong heroines. (This was before I discovered m/m. Don’t laugh, I led a very sheltered childhood.)It was with the advent of the family's second computer – the first intimidated everyone – that my writing took off. I discovered 1. Fanfiction; 2. m/m (yes, I know. Finally!); 3. the wonder that is copy and paste. Does anyone remember what typing up a manuscript on a manual typewriter was like? Okay then, nuff said.While I was involved in fandom, I was nominated for both Rerun and Light My Fire Awards. But even then, my original characters would come knocking, to the point I’ve left Jim and Blair, Rodney and John, and even Lyle and Mr. Taggart (Blazing Saddles) behind. I’ve been published by Nazca Plain, JMS Books, Dreamspinner, Wilde City Press, and Less Than Three Press, and now I’m taking the leap into the self-pubbing pool. My novel, Two Lips, Indifferent Red received honorable mention in the 2013 Rainbow Awards, and Home Before Sundown was a 2017 runner-up.Now I reside in SW Florida with my husband and three computers, but I’ll always be a Noo Yawk kinda gal.

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      In His Line of Work - Tinnean

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      Chapter 1

      Deuce Pettigrew entered Lacey’s Café on 14th St. SW. When he’d first come to DC, back in ‘93, it had been known as Java Joe’s.

      The place was mobbed, filled with men and women who were taking a break from work or from class. It looked like he’d need to find another coffee shop to frequent.

      He shook his head and got on line.

      So what’s the skinny, Dix? the young man ahead of him asked his companion.

      I’m at loose ends right now. Charles has gone down to Disney World to see a friend of his.

      A male friend?

      No. Jeanette Van Orden and her kid are down there.

      Deuce made every muscle in his body relax. He knew that name. He’d looked for the woman and her son for most of the past year.

      I haven’t been to Disney World in ages, the young man observed.

      It’s not a vacation. She’s working there.

      So was I, last time I was there. He bumped his shoulder against Dix’s. Is she one of the characters?

      No, she’s at the Contemporary, in housekeeping.

      Well, since Chuckles isn’t here—

      You’d better never let Charles hear you call him that, Dix warned.

      The barista gave them their coffees then, and they paid her and wandered off.

      Deuce didn’t hear the rest of their conversation, but that wasn’t important. He knew where the woman and the kid were, and that would give him leverage with his boss. And since she was up in New York just then, he’d have plenty of time to make his plans.

      This one’s on me, handsome.

      He accepted the cup of coffee the barista offered him and gave her an absent smile. She’d been trying to flirt with him since she’d started working at Lacey’s Café. She was persistent; he’d say that for her.

      Thanks very much, he murmured. It wasn’t that she wasn’t pretty, because she was; it wasn’t

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