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    Lack of Professional Detachment: Fall Trilogy Short Story
    Lack of Professional Detachment: Fall Trilogy Short Story
    Lack of Professional Detachment: Fall Trilogy Short Story
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    Lack of Professional Detachment: Fall Trilogy Short Story

    By Olivette Devaux

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    Adrian Rios, prodigy. But gifted kids get bullied for their strangeness, for making the rest feel stupid in class.

    Don Maxim, a man twelve years his senior. But when the twenty-year old rescues the eight-year old from a vicious beating, neither can predict their meeting ten years later.

    A meeting they meet as men and equals, a time when old debts are paid, favors returned.

    A budding relationship whose chemistry crackles like the joyful lightning of a heavy summer storm.

     

    This sweet love story fits anywhere in the Fall Trilogy series, and was originally written as a stand-alone.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMugen Press
    Release dateApr 18, 2020
    ISBN9781393851400
    Lack of Professional Detachment: Fall Trilogy Short Story
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    Olivette Devaux

    A winner of numerous "Writers of the Future" Honorable Mentions and various genre awards, Olivette Devaux writes stories of all lengths and on a variety of topics. If you like urban fantasy, science fiction, crime fiction, and romance, you will find many a good read in her repertoire! Please pay careful attention to keywords, cover branding, and story summaries. All these will hint as to the genre, mood, and your emotional take-away.  Olivette gave up her vagabond ways to settle in Pittsburgh, where she shares a home with her family and her numerous imaginary friends.

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      Lack of Professional Detachment - Olivette Devaux

      LACK OF PROFESSIONAL DETACHMENT

      A Fall Trilogy Short Story

      OLIVETTE DEVAUX

      COPYRIGHT NOTICE

      Lack of Professional Detachment ©Olivette Devaux 2020

      Published by Mugen Press

      www.mugenpress.com

      This is a work of fiction. All characters, places, and events are the products of the author’s imaginations and any resemblance to real persons, places, or events is purely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, known or unknown, or shared for free. Please don’t be a pirate.

      It is allowed (and encouraged) to quote a brief paragraph for editorial or review purposes.

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      © 2020 Mugen Press

      Cover content is for illustrative purposes only and any person depicted on the cover is a model.

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      Lack of Professional Detachment (Fall Trilogy Short Story)

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      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      Further Reading: Breakfall

      Also By Olivette Devaux

      LACK OF PROFESSIONAL DETACHMENT

      WHEN ADRIAN RIOS WAS three years old, he taught himself to read By the time he entered kindergarten, he’d finished all books of import in the public library’s children’s department and was guided by the elderly, white-haired librarian to answer the Why’s and How’s of his brilliant, five-year old mind He’d read the Bible and judged its inconsistencies harshly, declaring it brokenHe’d read the complete works of Shakespeare and was comforted by the knowledge that the sad, empty feeling in his little heart wasn’t his alone.

      When Adrian Rios was nine

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