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Emily Nakanishi

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Young Adult, Crime, Gay and Lesbian

Influences

Craig Johnson, Tess Sharpe, Amy Tan

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December 2018

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Emily Nakanishi currently resides in Tennessee. She married the love of her life, Loui, in June of 2022. They live happily together with too many cats (Sheba, Ethel, Lucy, Frankie, Quinten, and Waffle) and one friendly giant pit bull named Riley.

She currently maintains a true crime, weird science, and fiction blog called A Dark and Stormy Write.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 19 ratings · 3 reviews · 1 distinct work

Your Heart Was a Legend

3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014

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The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1)

by Shantel Tessier (Goodreads Author)

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Bend Him Break Him

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Mafia and Protector (Marchiano & Petrov Mafia)

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