DEAN WESLEY SMITH

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith weaves a tale of survival in a devastated future world.When Carey Noack returns to the ruined Portland, Oregon, hoping to meet other survivors after three years of living alone, she doesnt expect the man of her dreams.At first, Matt Ladel, the only person living in the old city, thinks he imagined the beautiful woman weaving through dead cars. Then he finds the reality behind the fantasy.Suddenly, the two experts in survival and living alone must learn to work together, and trust again, in the face of an even greater danger.A novel of hope and a new future, Dust and Kisses is the prequel novel to Dean Wesley Smiths popular Seeders Universe series.

Over fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this thirty-second monthly volume the full novel Theyre Back: A Poker Boy Short Novel, plus seven short stories and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest.Short StoriesA Bad Patch of Humanity: A Seeders Universe StoryA Great First Day: A Ghost of a Chance StoryThe Problem of Grapevine Springs: A Thunder Mountain StoryBest Eaten on a Slow TuesdayMake Myself Just One More: A Mary Jo Assassin StoryWhy Delay? Just Rub: A Bryant Street StoryIdanha Hotel: A Thunder Mountain StoryFull NovelTheyre Back: A Poker Boy Short NovelSerial FictionLaying the Music to Rest (Part 5)NonfictionIntroduction: A Basics Issue

Over one hundred thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this twenty-second monthly volume the full and complete novel, Dead Money: A Doc Hill Thriller.Dead Money is a poker thriller, plus four short stories, an ongoing serial novel, and other features.Short StoriesNonexistent No More: A Poker Boy StoryIn the Shade of the Slowboat ManStanding in Line at the IntersectionIts a Story About a Guy WhoFull NovelDead Money: A Doc Hill ThrillerSerial NovelAn Easy Shot: A Golf Thriller (Part 5 of 8)NonfictionIntroduction: Bringing Back a Novel

A womans hand, perfectly encased in a box of glass. Found by kids in a field ten years before.Retired Detectives on the Cold Poker Gang Task Force in Las Vegas finally get assigned the case.What happened the decade before to the unknown woman?A twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery short story.

Concord Coaches hold a mythical place in the history of the Old West. Colfax Shaw and Anna Taber, born a hundred years apart, find a compatible interest in one old Concord.Anna studies the math of situations and timelines while Colfax focuses on the history of it all.But both the math and the history, normally solid and dependable for both Anna and Colfax, suddenly become erratic. All because of a Concord stagecoach.Another exciting novel in the Thunder Mountain series.

Las Vegas, wedding capital of the entire country. And at times, Marble and Sims end up watching very strange weddings.Like a wedding between two serial killers. Sort of. At least they killed old marriages.A strange wedding in a town full of really strange weddings.

A giant round spaceship the size of Jupiter flashes in from outside the galaxy, clearly out of control, headed directly for the Earth system.Captain Friday "Disco" Franks and Captain Emma Dakota meet in a nursing home on Earth where she feeds his stroke-ravaged body three meals a day.Then the Earth Protection League tasks them with not only stopping the giant ship to save Earth, but exploring it.Another fun romp into the depths of the Earth Protection League space.

Over seventy-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this thirtieth monthly volume the full novel The Idanha Hotel: A Thunder Mountain Novel, the WMG Writers Guide Writing a Novel in Seven Days, plus four short stories, and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest.Short StoriesLeaking Away a Life: A Poker Boy StoryCold ComfortThe Delusion that WaitedThe Face in the Fullness of TimeFull NovelThe Idanha Hotel: A Thunder Mountain NovelSerial FictionLaying the Music to Rest (Part 3)NonfictionWriting a Novel in Seven DaysIntroduction: Two Books in This Issue

Dan remembers clearly the time before the accident.He remembers his wonderful wife and daughter. Impossible to forget. He refuses to eat or work or even move most days.He made a mistake, they died. He lives. He blames himself for their deaths.Someone knocks on his home door. And the truth flips as only it can on Bryant Street.

Over ninety thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. In this seventh volume the full and complete Poker Boy novel, The Slots of Saturn, plus four original short stories, two ongoing serial novels, and many other features.Short StoriesA Desert Shot: A Poker Boy storyA Bubble for a MinuteGods Arent Funny: A Poker Boy storyWaiting for the Coin to DropFull NovelThe Slots of Saturn: A Poker Boy novelSerial FictionThe Life and Times of Buffalo JimmyThe Adventures of HawkNonfictionIntroduction: The Origin of Yet Another NovelPoemsTimes WindowMy Farts Cry

In a casino in Oregon, Poker Boy beats a man fair-and-square at the poker table while a stranger watches, a stranger who knows too much about Poker Boy and his job.It turns out that much of Poker Boys future rested on that one hand of cards. A classic Poker Boy story with true heart.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a third novel, Morning Song.A massive ship powers toward the Milky Way Galaxy, threatening to destroy entire worlds. The rogue ship, the size of a moon, seems to have no entrance.With little time before millions die, Maria Boone and Roscoe Mundy must somehow take a small team into the massive ship to stop it.A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure and suspense and the humanity that can exist in a vast culture.

Eve Bryson died so fast that she felt fine, standing on a twisting mountain road in the rain, not realizing her body lay broken in her Miata down a slope. Then hunk-of-a-man Deputy Cascade steps into her life, arriving on the scene to investigate her death.Wet, cold, hungry, and needing to pee, she finds herself dead and in lust. Then things really start to happen.Eve died. And life got better.

USA TODAY BESTSELLING WRITER Dean Wesley Smith returns to his most popular series that features the superhero Poker Boy and all his sidekicks.Poker Boy once again finds himself facing the task of saving someone. But this person seems to be a ghost.Can a simple poker player give a ghost a reason to live? If anyone can do it, Poker Boy can, all between hands of cards on a great Saturday night.

The First Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they have been acclaimed and enjoyed by fans over the entire world.Now, for the first time, they collect 100 of their mystery short stories into a five-volume series called Crimes Collide. Fifty stories total from each author, with ten stories from Rusch and ten from Smith in every volume.Volume 1 starts off the series with light or cozy stories. Beginning with Ruschs "Stomping Mad," from her Spade/Paladin series, about a "murder" at a science fiction convention and ending with Smiths "Under the Skin of Death," from his Cold Poker Gang series, where two retired Las Vegas homicide detectives solve a cold murder case, this volume puts puzzle-solving front and center from page one.

Stout used to own the Garden Lounge where the time-traveling jukebox sat. He sold the Garden to live with his love, Jenny.Now Jennys cancer diagnosis gives her only five months to live. Bonnie and Duster, the original owners of the jukebox, will not stand for that diagnosis. A Thunder Mountain story of love and death and living?

Over seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this twenty-ninth monthly volume the full novel Dead Hand: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery, plus four short stories, and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest.Short StoriesShootout in the Okey-Doke Casino: A Poker Boy StoryHe Could Have Coped with Dragons: A Jukebox StoryRoses Around the Moment: A Ghost of a Chance StoryThe Great Alien VibrationFull NovelDead Hand: A Cold Poker Gang MysterySerial FictionLaying the Music to Rest (Part 2)NonfictionIntroduction: Still Going Strong

The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional science fiction short stories that won awards and sold millions of copies.Now, for the first time, they collect together 120 of their science fiction short stories into a six-volume set called Colliding Worlds. Sixty stories total from each author, with ten stories from Rusch and ten from Smith in every volume.Volume 6 closes the series with a space opera theme, a genre both Rusch and Smith excel in. Smith starts the volume with "The Tragic Tale of a Man in a Duster" about a cowboy floating alone in the vast reaches of space, who finds solace in cooking trout over an open fire. Rusch closes the volume with "The Spires of Denon," a novella from her award-winning Diving Universe.

Seeders ship Rescue Two rescues lost ships trapped in Void Space Bubbles. Often trapped for millions of years.While in search of an ancient lost ship, Rescue Two discovers something in a bubble they can hardly imagine.This short story was a chapter in the Rescue Two Seeders novel.

Sandy Goodson in 2002 vanished without a trace.Seventeen years later, retired detectives Isadora Fawn and Hugh Halligan team up, working for the Cold Poker Gang task force, to look into the Goodson missing persons case.As active detectives years earlier, both individually tried to solve this impossible case without luck. Now, together, they uncover far, far more than they ever imagined.Another very twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery novel.