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    Dubious Duties
    Dubious Duties
    Dubious Duties
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    Dubious Duties

    By Joshua Vernson

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    Parolee Kella Bleen finally smells the first sweet scent of freedom after 10 years of incarceration, but things quickly take a turn for the strange when a man claiming to be from the Adarasan Intelligence Executive, AIE, demands assistance.

    “Comply or die” is the basic choice, so choosing the former, she becomes the reluctant tool in an operation with a silver lining: she gets to kidnap the Judge who sent her away. The mixture of relative freedom, jarring from the sudden and rapid changes, and the chance to live out a fantasy give her a whole new lease of life, but can she really trust this stranger to keep her safe?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoshua Vernson
    Release dateSep 9, 2020
    ISBN9781005865535
    Dubious Duties
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    Joshua Vernson

    Joshua Vernson is an amateur part-time Author from the UK. His interest in writing started from a young age when he used to write a number of scripts of various subjects for entertainment. In 2009, he wrote a script and showed it to one of his Secondary School teachers. The teacher was impressed by the script and eventually adapted it for a play at a theatre they worked at; somewhat predictably not crediting Joshua in the process. For a long time after this he continued to write scripts and short stories in secret, but never thought much of it until late 2017 when he decided to attempt to publish his first story “For Gudaeil”; a story based off a mixture of the stories he wrote years prior. Since then he has been working on several new books simultaneously, and hopes to develop into a more serious writer in the future.

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