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Isabelle Drake is the fiction alias of Melissa Ford Lucken. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lasell University and an MA in Special Education from Eastern Michigan University. She teaches creative writing and composition and is the fiction and creative non-fiction editor of the Washington Square Review.

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Flames of Fate: Two Paranormal Romances

A ghost with a proposition. An exile with orders from the Oracle. Fate never plays fair.

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Unfulfilled in her relationship and beset by disturbing dreams, Lacey encounters a stranger on a business trip who is as mysterious as he is familiar. He stirs her memories as well as her lust. He wants her. Wants her body. Wants her help. Two lost lovers from a distant p

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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America

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Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

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