title: Gruesomes: Ghastly Bedtime Tales
author: Christopher Whedon
description: Christopher J.Whedon.I was born April 2, 1951 in Kansas City, MissouriAttended Johnson County College: Degree in NursingChurch of the Ozarks: Ordained MinisterCurrently resides in Overland Park, Kansas, with his wife Nancy and two dogs, Rufus and Hendrix.
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  **MIDNIGHT**
  
   **SINS**
  
   **MIDNIGHT SINS**
  
   **CYNTHIA EDEN**
  
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  KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.
  
  www.kensingtonbooks.com
  
  _For Ashley—_
  
  _The friend who gives me gossip, laughter, and understanding._
  
  _Thanks for being you, lady!_
  
   **Contents**
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
   **Chapter 2**
  
   **Chapter 3**
  
   **Chapter 4**
  
   **Chapter 5**
  
   **Chapter 6**
  
   **Chapter 7**
  
   **Chapter 8**
  
   **Chapter 9**
  
   **Chapter 10**
  
   **Chapter 11**
  
   **Chapter 12**
  
   **Chapter 13**
  
   **Chapter 14**
  
   **Chapter 15**
  
   **Chapter 16**
  
   **Chapter 17**
  
   **Chapter 18**
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
   **T** he guy in the bed had enjoyed killer sex.
  
  Detective Todd Brooks stared down at the naked man. The guy’s hands were tied
  to the bed frame with a thick, white rope. His arms were stretched above him,
  and his legs sprawled across the mattress. An open condom wrapper littered the
  floor to his right, but there was no sign of the condom, or of the person
  who’d bound the man.
  
  Poor dead bastard.
  
  “Someon