Strange Little Band

Praise for Strange Little Band

"Strange Little Band is an engrossing love/hate story set in the heart of a cold- hearted megacorp. ... Shane, an alien half-breed, and Addison, a psychic, are themselves both the players and the played in the elaborate game the Triptych Corporation is playing. ... Neither Addison nor Shane are likeable people, and yet, living their lives vicariously through the story, they become sympathetic characters: they're well-written, believable, and engaging."

-Lyn Thorne-Alder, author of Addergoole

"I'm really not a big fan of romance. Thankfully Strange Little Band is not a sappy romance. It's a dark dysfunctional romance that doesn't pretend it's normal. ... On the whole Strange Little Band lives up to its name. It's a wonderfully strange serial and I will keep going back for more."

-Becka Sutton, author of Dragon Wars

"[Strange Little Band] is mainly a love story between two very bad people who use and manipulate others at will. It's an interesting point of view, like seeing how a master villain and his relationships play out on a day-to-day basis."

-M. Jones, author of 314 Crescent Manor and Black Wreath

Strange Little Band

Sample Chapters

Nancy Brauer and Vanessa Brooks

Wattpad Edition

Copyright 2010 Triptych LLC

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.

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Cover and interior text design by Nancy Brauer

Wattpad Edition / November 2010

Published by Triptych LLC

Visit our website for print editions, artwork, and more: http://www.strangelittleband.com

Acknowledgements

This book would not exist if not for the weird, wonderful Internet and its denizens. Our thanks go to every visitor of the Strange Little Band website who decided to give our tale a try. Your encouragement over the year and a half that SLB ran as a serial helped us keep editing, filling plot holes, and to finally dream up an ending.

We'd especially like to thank everyone who took the time to review or otherwise help promote SLB. A.M. Harte and Rachel Phillippi get a special shout-out for proofreading the final draft. Extra special kudos with sprinkles on top go to Brandon and Chris, who put up with us and our overactive imaginations.

"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."

-Erma Bombeck

Prologue: What's Best

Ellen Myers dabbed at her puffy red eyes with a fresh tissue. "But we've already been over this with Lt. Narita." The box of tissues was the only item on the utilitarian metal table.