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    Death Benefits
    Death Benefits
    Death Benefits
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    Death Benefits

    By Mellanie Szereto

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    Sometimes…you're better off dead.

    Even as a woman used to dealing with dead people, Genesis Blacke has met her match.
    Widow Genesis Blacke spends her days with dead people and her nights wishing she could relive the last moments with her deceased husband, that she could somehow change the past and save him from death. Fate gives her a second chance at love, but it isn't quite what she expects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmatoria Press
    Release dateFeb 27, 2023
    ISBN9781942522034
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      Death Benefits - Mellanie Szereto

      Death Benefits

      DEATH BENEFITS

      MELLANIE SZERETO

      Amatoria Press

      Death Benefits

      Copyright © 2015 Mellanie Szereto

      Published by Amatoria Press

      Cover art by Dragonfly Press Design

      Word Count: 5,518

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author. To request permission to excerpt portions of this book, except in the case of brief quotations for reviews, please contact the author at mellanieszereto@hotmail.com.

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      ISBN: 978-1-942522-03-4

      Sometimes…you’re better off dead.

      Even as a woman used to dealing with dead people, Genesis Blacke has met her match.

      Widow Genesis Blacke spends her days with dead people and her nights wishing she could relive the last moments with her deceased husband, that she could somehow change the past and save him from death. Fate gives her a second chance at love, but it isn’t quite what she expects.

      Genesis Blacke lifted the last body into her pickup and closed the bed cover. Not trusting the audible click, she turned the key in the lock. The last thing she wanted was attention from a corpse bouncing onto the road on her way into town. People already avoided her because

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