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Jo Denning

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Born
in Goldsboro, NC, The United States
June 15, 1989

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Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, Patricia Briggs, Stephen King

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Jo Denning is the author of the Saoirse Reilly series. She has spent her career as a clinical social worker supporting neurodivergent people of all ages. Jo began writing supernatural crime thrillers as a way of processing the traumatic things she has seen and heard. Her characters may be supernatural but their stories, their fear, and their pain are real. So, too, are their triumphs over impossible odds.

When she's not writing, Jo enjoys baking, drawing, and watching trashy reality TV. She makes her home somewhere in the contiguous United States with her husband, one fluffy cat, and one barely domesticated cat.
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Jo Denning Two different girls related to two different coworkers of mine went missing. Their disappearances were likely not connected. But, when I do think abou…moreTwo different girls related to two different coworkers of mine went missing. Their disappearances were likely not connected. But, when I do think about them, I think about both missing girls as though they are.(less)
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Happy Pub Day to Hush Hush City!

Hush Hush City (Saoirse Reilly, #2) by Jo Denning

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Cruel Prince meets Law & Order in Hush Hush City, the thrilling sequel to Dead Blood City and second installment in the Saoirse Reilly series!

Saoirse Reilly, police detective and wayward psychic, is still reeling from the events of Dead Blood City. Her lies are piling up but there's no time to deal. She and her loved ones are in danger once a
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“Ringlets formed a halo around her tawny face. Her body was bloody and bare as Lilith driven from Eden.”
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“It feels like the world just turned back on.”
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“Now the animal fear drove her. The unseasoned heart in her chest pumped faster and faster still, adrenaline muzzling all conscious thought. Heaving breaths filled her lungs with mossy air and sweat chilled her skin. Each dig of her heels spattered mud over her legs as she ran. Overgrown hedges caged the girl’s small frame in evergreen and shadow. There was no nightmare more hellish than that endless flight, searching for the place she belonged and finding nothing.”
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“I want my magic to coat your skin and permeate the air you breathe. I want to own you. I want you to think about me all day, every day, obsessively the way I think about you.”
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“But it was Parrish’s eyes that were most jarringly attractive. At first glance, I’d assumed they were brown. They were, in fact, black. Not a dull, matte black but a deep ebony. Like a starless sky at midnight, there was a suggestion of some other color behind the darkness of his irises—indigo or violet, perhaps.”
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