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

"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.

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