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    Name-Calling
    Name-Calling
    Name-Calling
    Ebook23 pages12 minutes

    Name-Calling

    By Kristine Grayson

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    LizBet wants to accept Van's marriage proposal, but she can't say yes until she figures out what to do about her last name. Should she take his? Should she keep hers? Such a simple thing. How come it feels so hard?

    "Kristine Grayson gives 'happily ever after' her own unique twist!"

    —Kasey Michaels

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateFeb 6, 2019
    ISBN9781386635604
    Name-Calling
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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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      Name-Calling - Kristine Grayson

      Name-Calling

      Name-Calling

      Kristine Grayson

      WMG Publishing

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      Name-Calling

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      Name-Calling

      Such a simple decision, really, and yet it held her up. She couldn’t say she would marry Van unless she knew what she would do about her name.

      LizBet leaned back on the brown leather desk chair and stared out the wall of windows. Her office was in one of the tallest buildings in Portland, not quite on the top floor, but close enough. She could see the Columbia River and beyond to the mountain ranges narrowing into the Willamette Valley. Her desk, shiny oak, still smelled as woodsy as the day she bought it. Van had once teased her that she bought her furniture because it smelled good, not because it looked good.

      She doodled on her Palm, the Mac humming on the credenza to her side. Mrs. Van L. Lyndale. Elizabeth Lyndale. Elizabeth Lyndale-Hayes. Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes. Elizabeth Hayes-Lyndale. She drew little hearts over the I in her first name, just as she had done in middle school, and made the period after Mrs. Into a small

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