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    An Obscene Crime Against Passion: Bryant Street
    An Obscene Crime Against Passion: Bryant Street
    An Obscene Crime Against Passion: Bryant Street
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    An Obscene Crime Against Passion: Bryant Street

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    James Ward no longer cares what his wife does in her spare time. He no longer cares about anything, actually.

    Deborah took his passion over years. Drained him until he could give no more.

    But on Bryant Street, sick relationships often reveal hidden secrets.

    Passion functions as a food for some, energy for others. But who knows what role passion plays on Bryant Street.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateApr 5, 2016
    ISBN9781524235406
    An Obscene Crime Against Passion: Bryant Street
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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 over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four 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, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he 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.

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      Book preview

      An Obscene Crime Against Passion - Dean Wesley Smith

      James Ward no longer cares what his wife does in her spare time. He no longer cares about anything, actually.

      Deborah took his passion over years. Drained him until he could give no more.

      But on Bryant Street, sick relationships often reveal hidden secrets.

      Passion functions as a food for some, energy for others. But who knows what role passion plays on Bryant Street.

      CHAPTER ONE

      THE NIGHT JAMES WARD finally confronted his wife for what she truly was started when police car lights flashed outside the large picture window of his suburban home. The drawn cloth curtains kept most of the light out, as well as the closed blinds under the curtains, but he still noticed the blue-red combination.

      He couldn’t remember the last time he had opened those windows and unless he heard shots out there in the cul-de-sac, he wasn’t opening them now. The last baseball games before the All-Star break were being played tonight and

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