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    Too Good To Be True: A Short Story
    Too Good To Be True: A Short Story
    Too Good To Be True: A Short Story
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    Too Good To Be True: A Short Story

    By Joelle Fraser

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    A cautionary tale about one man's search for the ultimate biker chick.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoelle Fraser
    Release dateDec 20, 2014
    ISBN9781311478122
    Too Good To Be True: A Short Story
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    Joelle Fraser

    Joelle Fraser is an award-winning author of two books, The Territory of Men, and The Forest House. She’s also the publisher of HardRider Press, whose short stories are set in the motorcycle world. www.joellefraser.com

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      Too Good To Be True - Joelle Fraser

      Too Good Too Be True

      A Short Story

      HardRider Series #3

      By Joelle Fraser

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      Too Good Too Be True

      A Short Story

      HardRider Series #3

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright ©2014 by Joelle Fraser

      The characters and events in this story are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

      All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Cover image design by Pro_ebookcovers.

      Icon of motorcycle copyright jackrust / 123RF Stock Photo, used with permission.

      Author photo by Noah Porter, used with permission.

      Published by HardRider Press

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      Too Good Too Be True

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      The HardRider Series

      About the Author

      Too Good Too Be True

      Let me tell you what happened to my friend Dwayne. It’s a true story, one of those cautionary tales, the kind of thing that could happen to anyone.

      Almost anyone.

      It started how many stories do—with loneliness. The kind that grows and grows until it’s part of every minute of the day—at work, with your kids, when you go to sleep and when can’t sleep at 2:00 a.m.

      Unhappily married people have their own kind of loneliness hell, but Dwayne’s was the real thing: he was the single guy who could not find a girl.

      It wasn’t for lack of trying, hell no. He blamed it on geography—who could meet someone in rinky dink Westwood, halfway between two tiny mountain towns a half hour in each direction?

      He tried. He went east over Fredonyer Pass to Reno, west over Lassen Pass

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