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Controlled Descent: A Story Of the Restoration
Controlled Descent: A Story Of the Restoration
Controlled Descent: A Story Of the Restoration
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Controlled Descent: A Story Of the Restoration

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Forty-two years have passed since the Restored United States emerged from decades of chaos and revolution. The future is a brave new world, but some things never change. Money still talks, power still corrupts, and trust is a rare and precious commodity.

When Alison Gregorio lands a cushy administrative job in a law office, she kn

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Release dateJun 24, 2016
ISBN9781945745034
Controlled Descent: A Story Of the Restoration
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K. M. Herkes

K. M. Herkes writes and publishes science fiction and fantasy stories that feature damaged heroes with complicated lives who achieve triumph through cooperation. Before becoming a full-time writer, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Notre Dame, dabbled in the retail pet supply industry, and then enjoyed an eighteen-year bookselling career with Borders Books & Music. Along the way she also collected experience in high school teaching, animal training, aquaculture, horticulture, food service, and inventory control. When she isn't writing, she digs holes in her backyard and sticks plants in them, putters around the kitchen doing experimental baking, and reads just enough to keep her stack of unread books from getting taller than she is. The author's website can be found at http://dawnrigger.com

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