A Great First Day: Ghost of a Chance

By Dean Wesley Smith

Eve Bryson, ghost agent, assigned to work with Deputy Cascade, superhero cop.

Cascade rolls nice guy, handsome stud, and superhero into a tight package. What could a horny ghost of a girl do?

Before Eve suggests a ghost affair, they experience a first day on the job together. She soon learns that lust sometimes takes a side seat to saving lives.

A Ghost of a Chance story that expands the universe. Don’t miss this one if you enjoy the series. Or if you want to jump into the series for the first time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Apr 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524246518

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.

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE

EVE BRYSON WAS DEAD. Deputy McCall Cascade was alive.

They had been assigned to work together. No one said anything about sex, but a girl could hope, couldn’t she? Especially when Cascade was a real superhero and more handsome than a Greek God.

For Eve, the training with the other Ghost of a Chance agents had gone great, and now she knew how to be inside another person, control that living person, teleport anywhere she wanted to go, and do a ton of other stuff that ghost agents could do.

With the help of a few other superheroes, including the famous Poker Boy and his girlfriend Patty, Eve had her own condo in the Pearl district. Patty said they were so rich they didn’t know what to do with all their money, so they could use it as a tax shelter.

Patty and Sherri, two superheroes, even helped Eve furnish her condo the way she wanted it so she had her own place, with dishes, a toilet seat without a lid, and everything.

The other ghost agents found it great that she was working with a superhero as a partner.

A live superhero.

Something very different.

As one of them said, she was doing something that had never been tried before in thousands and thousands of years.

It was going to be interesting to see how it worked out.

Up until a few weeks ago, she didn’t even know that any of this ghost and superhero world even existed. But