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    Caught Forever Between
    Caught Forever Between
    Caught Forever Between
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    Caught Forever Between

    By Adrian Phoenix

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    A short story set in the world of Adrian's critically acclaimed Hoodoo novels, Black Dust Mambo and Black Heat Loa, and featuring Gabrielle LaRue and Devlin Daniels from those books. It is not necessary to read the novels in order to enjoy the story.

    Deep in the bayou, justice comes in many forms.

    When Cass finds her partner lying on the floor of their New Orleans tattoo shop in a pool of blood, the world as she knows it ends. Alex, her ink-slinging Michelangelo, lies in the hospital comatose, perhaps permanently.

    Lacking faith in the police and their ability to find whoever shot Alex, Cass puts the word out that she's seeking justice, justice she will willingly pay for.

    When a Voodoo mambo offers the services of her mysterious godson, Cass finds herself stepping into a dark, deadly world, one that she may not walk out of again intact.

    "Phoenix is a beautiful storyteller--her prose flows like poetry."
    --Explorations: the BN SciFi & Fantasy Blog

    Adrian Phoenix is the acclaimed author of two urban fantasy series--The Maker's Song books (A Rush of Wings, In the Blood, Beneath the Skin, Etched in Bone) and the Hoodoo books (Black Dust Mambo, Black Heart Loa).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreaming Nomad Books
    Release dateJan 22, 2012
    ISBN9781466153332
    Caught Forever Between
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    Adrian Phoenix

    Adrian Phoenix lives in Oregon with her three cats and travels to New Orleans whenever possible.

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      Caught Forever Between - Adrian Phoenix

      Caught Forever Between

      Adrian Phoenix

      Copyright 2012 by Adrian Phoenix

      All rights reserved

      Cover Artist:

      Michael Lorenzo

      Cover Design:

      Michelle Jolicoeur

      Published by Dreaming Nomad Books

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      Table of Contents

      Beginning

      Scene2

      Scene3

      Scene4

      Finale

      Afterword

      About Adrian

      Other Works by Adrian

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      Caught Forever Between

      Adrian Phoenix

      Tearing down the yellow crime-scene tape, Cass keyed open the door to INNER EYE TATTOO and stepped inside. Closing the door, she glanced around the shattered shop she and Alex shared.

      Broken glass from the windows glittered like mica on the stone-tiled floor and on the sofa; night-glo inks, their pungent odor lingering still in the humid air, smeared the walls, ceiling, and floor in neon-bright Rorschach designs. Almost everything had been bashed or ripped apart — the computer, the phone, Alex’s patterns and sketches and, behind her . . .

      Cass turned, glass crunching beneath her Doc Martens, and looked past the remains of the sterilizer and the tat gun scattered on the bloodstained floor.

      Alex’s blood. Clotted and dried into eerie designs that rivaled some of his best work —

      Throat tight, Cass looked away. Whoever had done this had hated Alex, hated him in secret until it had finally burst free, spattering the shop with a bitterness so thick she could feel it still; smell it bile-rank beneath the spicy-sweet odors of boiled shrimp and cayenne, magnolias and chicory coffee drifting in through the broken windows.

      A week since That Night and Alex remained in a coma at Charity Hospital — would her Michelangelo dream forever? Never again open his eyes? — and nothing had been done.

      Just like nothing had been done when her mother was murdered fifteen years ago in Boise.

      Switching on the fan, Cass sank down onto the client lounger. She sighed in relief as the fan’s breeze dried the sweat on her face and throat. The warm rush of air plastered her black mesh tank top against her perspiration-dampened skin and fluttered the hem of her red plaid skirt. From outside, jazz and faint laughter from Dumaine Street floated in to mingle with the fan’s determined hum.

      Another sultry N’awlins night. Her seventh night in hell. And counting — until Alex opened his eyes again.

      If, a traitorous part of her whispered, repeating the doctor’s words. If. And even then, he could remain in a vegetative state, blue eyes open, but empty. Forever.

      Cass pulled her feet up onto the lounger and wrapped her arms around her fishnet-clad legs. She shut her eyes and rested her chin against her knees. She felt like a little kid

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