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About the Author
Zane is the New York Times bestselling author of Afterburn, The Heat Seekers, Dear G-Spot, Gettin’ Buck Wild, The Hot Box, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Nervous, Skyscraper, Love Is Never Painless, Shame on It All, and The Sisters of APF; the ebook short stories I’ll be Home for Christmas and Everything Fades Away; and editor for the Flava anthology series, including Z-Rated and Busy Bodies. Her television series, Zane’s Sex Chronicles and The Jump Off, are featured on Cinemax, and her bestselling novel Addicted has been adapted for a major motion picture with Lionsgate Films. She is the publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. Visit her online at EroticaNoir.com.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Zane, author.
Title: Vengeance : a novel / Zane.
Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041511 (print) | LCCN 2015044581 (ebook) |
Subjects: LCSH: Revenge—Fiction. | Women singers—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction. | Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / African American / Erotica. | FICTION / Erotica. | FICTION / Romance / Adult. | GSAFD: Love stories. | Erotic fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3626.A63 V46 2016 (print) | LCC PS3626.A63 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
ISBN 978-1-5011-0804-4
ISBN 978-1-5011-0806-8 (ebook)
Contents
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Part One: The Verse
Prologue
Part Two: The Refrain
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Part Three: The Chorus
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Part Four: The Bridge
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Part Five: Coda
Epilogue
Commentary by Zane
About the Author