Dead Woman Walking: Sky Tate

By Dean Wesley Smith

Sometimes Sky Tate can just see that a person seems about to die. If that person continues on without changes, the person dies. Period.

Sky Tate often gets clients about to die and somehow, some way, most of the time, she manages to stop the death. Most of the time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Feb 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201360771

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.

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Dead Woman Walking

DEAD WOMAN WALKING

A SKY TATE STORY

DEAN WESLEY SMITH

WMG Publishing, Inc.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

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1

She sat tucked in the back corner of the small restaurant, not really hiding against the yellow-colored walls or protected by the too-loud oldies music. She had her brown hair tied up on the top of her head and secured by barrettes of polished, handmade wood. Her tank top barely hid her sports bra and her sandals tapped a nervous energy on the brown tile floor under the table.

I could tell the fricking instant I walked through the large glass front door of