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    Cosmic Balances Inc.
    Cosmic Balances Inc.
    Cosmic Balances Inc.
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    Cosmic Balances Inc.

    By Kristine Grayson

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    Grint’s uneventful life results in an uneventful afterlife, working as a minion, making sure the cosmic balance remains balanced. Birth day curses get balanced with birth day blessings. And no one gets into Heaven or Hell unless they deserve to go.

    But what happens when a particularly bad guy lines up in front of the Pearly Gates? A guy who definitely belongs in Hell. A guy who somehow managed to game the system—during Grint’s shift.

    What’s a relatively powerless minion like Grint supposed to do now?

    “Kristine Grayson gives ‘happily ever after’ her own unique twist!”

    —Kasey Michaels

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386593188
    Cosmic Balances Inc.
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    Kristine Grayson

    Before turning to romance writing, award-winning author Kristine Grayson edited the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and ran Pulphouse Publishing (which won her a World Fantasy Award). She has won the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award and, under her real name, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, the prestigious Hugo award. She lives with her own Prince Charming, writer Dean Wesley Smith, in Portland, Oregon.

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      Cosmic Balances Inc. - Kristine Grayson

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      Cosmic Balances Inc.

      Kristine Grayson

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      Cosmic Balances Inc.

      The computer spit out the information, then locked as a single piece of paper printed to the left of Grint. He closed his eyes, resisting the urge to bang his head against the screen.

      Could anything else go wrong today?

      He stood on his chair and peered over the fabric walls of his cubicle. As far as he could see, other minions were working their computers, taking notes, making life and death decisions, finishing their daily quotas.

      He wasn’t even halfway there, and it was already two-thirty in the afternoon.

      His boss, a stunning, six-foot tall woman who wore her red hair up (adding at least six inches to her height), emerged from her office. She started into the maze of cubicles, walking with purpose.

      Grint ducked back inside his. He had no idea what his boss would do if she caught him staring at the other minions. She could do anything. Rumor had it that she was the one who had convinced Mata Hari to be a double agent.

      Of course, other rumors stated that she had been Mata Hari in her previous life. Who knew? All he could be sure of was that she was tough, she was mean, and she believed that minions should stay on the job until each day’s work was done.

      He sighed and sank into his chair. The desk still smelled of the coffee he’d spilled that morning, and the garbage can still carried the faint odor of

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