Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Final Decree
    The Final Decree
    The Final Decree
    Ebook91 pages1 hour

    The Final Decree

    By Jeffrey Ricker

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Lockhart William “Bill” Templeton III needs a divorce. He’ll have to go halfway across the galaxy to get it.

    Bill’s impending marriage to Nelson Wolff could unite two of the most powerful industrial families on Terra Beta. The only problem: Bill’s already married. In his rebellious youth, he took up with Travis, a smuggler and all-around scoundrel, and wound up tying the knot. When he walked away from that life, though, he left some loose ends. Like a marriage certificate.

    Now, to get his estranged husband to sign off on the divorce decree, he’ll have to travel to a backwater world hundreds of light years away. When he gets there, he encounters a planetary blockade, instigated by one of his family’s unscrupulous business rivals, as part of an interstellar power play over an unprecedented energy source.

    Bill will need all the help he can get to make it to the altar in one piece.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeffrey Ricker
    Release dateSep 28, 2020
    ISBN9781005113674
    The Final Decree
    Author

    Jeffrey Ricker

    Jeffrey Ricker’s first novel, Detours, was published in 2011 by Bold Strokes Books. His second novel, The Unwanted, will be published by Bold Strokes in 2014. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Paws and Reflect, Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction, Blood Sacraments, Men of the Mean Streets, Speaking Out, Raising Hell, The Dirty Diner, Night Shadows: Queer Horror, and others. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he is pursuing an MFA at the University of British Columbia.

    Read more from Jeffrey Ricker

    Related to The Final Decree

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Super Power Couple

      Jun 15, 2022

      Super Power Couple
      6 min read

    • Article

      Left To Lose

      Jul 10, 2022

      Around the time she gives up her name, it starts to feel like this entire revolution isn’t worth it anymore. The world is probably lucky that Kelian—she still remembers Kelian, in spite of everything—is there to pick up the pieces, the way he always

      11 min read

    • Article

      Oat Grass

      Jun 25, 2020

      Oat Grass
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Wolf On The Bus

      May 10, 2021

      Exhaustion flooded my body, leaving a dull ache pulsating just behind my eyes. With my right thumb and index finger, I squeezed the bridge of my nose, exhaling deeply, trying to soothe the pain. This tactic worked temporarily; at least until the bus

      17 min read

    • Article

      Mrs. Robinson

      Dec 10, 2022

      “Do you think she will like me?” The question slipped from between my lips and hung suspended in the air. My gloved hands were in my lap, and I was wringing them. As the carriage conveyed us and we neared my new husband’s ancestral home, Ashby Hall,

      20 min read

    • Article

      You’ve Got A Friend In Me Author Allison Pearson On Real, Meaningful Friendship

      Oct 14, 2019

      The other day, my friend Karen turned down an invitation to lunch with a neighbour. The woman had lived across the road for years and, although they were chatty, they’d never got close. Recently, the woman started messaging daily, suggesting they mee

      3 min read

    • Article

      How The Life Goes On

      Feb 4, 2021

      How The Life Goes On
      9 min read

    • Article

      Wise old Mrs Merrow

      Jul 27, 2020

      Littlesea was everything the description said: a white stone cottage with beams and higgledy-piggledy walls and steps away from a tiny quay in a private bay. It would have been the perfect spot for honeymooners had it not had just the one single bed

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Real Downton

      Jul 12, 2019

      The Real Downton
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Bargain

      Dec 10, 2022

      “Which one of you owns G2V3889?” Cygnus glided through a luminescent star field suspended in the center of an otherwise dark, oblong studio, then turned in a slow circle to survey the twenty Agents surrounding him. “Come on, speak up.” Vega shuddered

      16 min read

    • Article

      Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast

      Apr 10, 2021

      I watched my wife leave our neighbor’s house, her empty hands shoved deep in the pockets of her red anorak. She came inside through our carport. I met her in our kitchen. “Beverly was really happy for the soup,” she said. “Honestly, it was a little s

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Bone Ships

      Oct 9, 2019

      RELEASED OUT NOW! 496 pages | Paperback/ebook Author RJ Barker Publisher Orbit The salty scent of the waves. The creak of the rigging. The soft glow of… corpselights powered by child sacrifices?! RJ Barker’s new trilogy is a pirate yarn wrapped in Ha

      1 min read

    • Article

      Yellow Is the Color of Choices

      Dec 10, 2023

      For whatever reason, when she sees me each weekend, Megan still hugs me like when she was five. Her skinny arms wrap around my waist, and her eyes squeeze tight like she’s absorbing me into her skin. This is both heartening and heart-wrenching. I wan

      13 min read

    • Article

      Speedboat

      Mar 24, 2022

      Nobody died that year. Nobody prospered. There were no births or marriages. Seventeen reverent satires were written – disrupting a cliché and, presumably, creating a genre. That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I fi nd,

      14 min read

    • Article

      Most Eligible Bachelors

      Jun 20, 2023

      Out’s editors pen love letters to the single queer men in Hollywood changing the world with their brains, beauty, and hearts It has been several years since Out released its once-annual roundup of Most Eligible Bachelors. As a list of the “most datea

      11 min read

    • Article

      Book review: Every Summer After

      Jun 23, 2022

      IS THERE A better place to find your first love than at the end of a dock? That’s what happens to teenagers Percy and Sam, the main characters in Every Summer After, a love story set on Kamaniskeg Lake, just outside of Barry’s Bay, Ont. From the firs

      1 min read

    • Article

      Hedonics, Inc

      Mar 10, 2022

      Liz’s gaze fixated on the patient’s face as the surgeon drove an electrode deep into his brain. A skull clamp held the patient’s head in place as the medical staff operated behind him. Frank sat beside Liz in the frigid observation room. He was dress

      15 min read

    • Article

      Planof Action

      Oct 5, 2021

      Planof Action
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Change

      Aug 8, 2019

      The Change
      10 min read

    • Article

      Calypso Throw

      Apr 4, 2023

      INTERMEDIATE 48 inches wide x 60 inches long • Bernat Super Value medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn (7 oz/ 426 yds/197g per skein): 2 skeins each #53201 aqua, #53730 cool blue and #07407 winter white 1 skein #164053 lush • Medium (worsted) weight

      3 min read

    • Article

      Movie Novels Are Still Around, And They Aren't All Trash — Just Ask The Chicagoans Who Wrote Them

      Apr 1, 2020

      CHICAGO - Recently, during C2E2 at McCormick Place, the Random House imprint Del Rey, which publishes Lucasfilm-licensed "Star Wars" books, made an unusual choice and offered the novelization of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" three weeks early. A

      9 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Final Decree

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Final Decree - Jeffrey Ricker

      cbook_preview_excerpt.htmlYK7 lJe AVR4deFfLHfWW>l5(>ɼdeW<pwg2xzvxL%)&++<,owb6혥|r c?^՟snm ʴv%;&̻6]f]%Fͯ0xل4a9,qHdX[v%]'\{.`{yD+g^Fr3vl2pmV ;y,ɷf lpϾ?6c|{'dC'$! Qdo9F_QN]B~9[XYLcP6HQD1? [I{d$|n7meN;uI4uʳp3na6 p/N:숡-b$i^7(Q_:f3 捘6Zdak G}v!6/]j|a&~h#J2a&i]IKB7(da/,&R1 <(sn/]FAmc%0jI  GV׷on/ߚ7}9=Ͽ7_G *6PO]%IvlG ==rڼ8F#X O76U!C;5V6w!*E/E0)zN H2l=d'jaWk"ζXd$e.4+bKb%c˥p2%SZj %e#d|8†a; F|HG:y YTf_ŹMQz4mkAȋ!Տ,Q(_on?]Mf R^4ג\?}"BT^>{Cpv0`WUyVXfJK>­(*dgr};"ﶉu>^NGU~s >éPЅQh5ݕ3‹y%ٮ v`re,VX<X盢."(AQK݊"ӡ4hkۤa{_eEϵesO!>Y#=٣/ӑ߳2h9+C\ eD` QDCSl$fY :N"Zᔶ/'GicM<Th,$mGX vϊ0Xt7QD0n$P:ProK{(RTBo=@&=؞hg4&N3 EHN̅|C)x,vלbC02Qbc<}j ( rw*ٞ}?䭭@PUdVQЀ6x*4 gSat>!uጛ1[sbu,:wZ`;a,Ht =q~pdQ^4;S\2 8s,#pQ}Q=c* D1w{$ZDfў[qGz2Z1`z*A.ccDQj+-oKE[q)B8"ﹲ@LHBXPOd.=,ZIό"fb}nW%g[в(W7g +BFi= &6gE*E*’8GYN L >3)c%'Ȗ1+-U%*rh~\>`TiC|[5}q%Eh_#E舵)Y5 x'?+߀sľ+mJCj:I-,^VqSi0,< Xd.xC6s{^1b8šMǎKhG'!q2XF3B+ntQG%5&+*mGWV'``YX[asY;P IϥinT߮upm뵟,st~h,sSy987(Z)CBKswb_SbDERP 65PAQ~rdI* Ě31 nC4v~J 5'̾ ʂr {6ZH vzqM(vH\T ш!KEbWٕ _\ywPL1̪9Ը&Q |QQ:/qP#I4x uq|PJh6\g+;,X(HnΦNb O%¤ʘ kx@t# Iۍd}gZ0,mf zHk*x;2a֋`]_+-߳R2k|CISvEbK|1j֞Vd7:Bѕ.̝CrGZdYJԶdqC(OH(,JaZ,#k63b, {ͤZP*~C֠h(Hvdޗ˧ps6%䦎-v.=ΔOiFcR `xs-&wV߰S?mӚNza,Q6EQҳ (u '팮 ^V5wzU?7_jxs 6 5:]s Y$)\sj)v4 բp&HB5"ˢ\q{B[weQ6c]3\]:bAU1X@)Sj+S> ԋ.D/HPKmH-wڛ7f±UA0;Γ&?V"xb64`sſP!]:P1?mhE:Pj> Msf5 'QoH-$/"O.j]T+`&;델=e[WH+˿Ƈ$4'Wō] A[i`Ʃݝr >g_k@> @
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1