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Cherry Pits

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What happens when a murderer is too lazy to clean up his own bodies? He hires someone else to do it for him. Chess Finnegan is a cleaner, and strictly a janitor of dead bodies. He doubles as a starving artist and tries to survive in the real world as an orphaned PTSD survivor. The cleaner and the killer have never met in person, and when one of them makes a mistake, the alliance quickly falls into a rivalry.

This story is thrilling and full of twists and turns as the characters reveal ugly truths about each other. With a unique antagonist unlike any other, you'll be sure to keep the pages turning to find out who succeeds and who fails in an anonymous battle of morally disturbed humans.

Oh... and you'll also find out why it's called Cherry Pits.All Rights Reserved

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Kingdom of isolation - you can't hide

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