Excerpt from Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Name: Black Moon
Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Author: Kenneth Calhoun
ISBN: 9780804137140

Black Moon

by Kenneth Calhoun

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First Published:
Mar 4, 2014, 288 pages

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Jan 2015, 288 pages

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"Hey," she brightened, "what are those for doing?" She looked at them with sweet wonder. The temporary absence of exhaustion made her suddenly so familiar—the real her surfacing from under the swamp of sleeplessness. He needed to hug her.

"Big squeeze," she said in his ear.

Excerpted from Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun. Copyright © 2014 by Kenneth Calhoun. Excerpted by permission of Hogarth Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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