Where do you go when life gets tedious and you have no time to bury yourself in a movie or a favorite novel? Or when your lunch buddy is late and you sit there... waiting. This is it. This little book of stories is wicked good fun. Each of the seven tales is a literary snack for readers who can smile at the darker side of life. Chris Rogers serves up another delicious tray of cleverly turned plots and deviously satisfying twists. Some curses never die ... Flip of a Coin A woman rides into town, and the town is never the same... One Nail Perhaps some buried treasures should remain buried ... Pretty Green Eyes When a phone call summons Sean home, it's no holiday, it's murder... Long Memories, Slow to Forgive by Chuck Brownman In the most extraordinary circumstances, love finds a way in... Sparkle When Booker Krane decides to enter his work in a contest, a hundred-year-old ritual leads to a startling murder ... Here Lie the Naked Ladies Never underestimate the stranger you meet on a lonely, fog-gripped road... The Last Hour YOUR FREE BONUS: A sneak peek at the opening chapters of Paradise Cursed, Book One: Captain Cord McKinsey, a pirate cursed with immortality in 1716 for doing a good deed, now operates the Sarah Jane as a cruise ship. Doomed to remain ship-bound within the Caribbean waters, and long despaired of ever breaking his own curse, Cord becomes entwined in helping his passengers with problems that require extraordinary solutions. When his lovely Jamaican first mate, Ayanna, is cursed by a Bokor and begins changing in mind and body, taking form as a reptile, Cord risks losing the people he cares for as well as his ship-the only square footage on land or sea where pain is not his eternal companion.