title: Death in a Funhouse Mirror
author: Kate Clark Flora
description: Less than a year after solving her sister's murder in <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ISBN=0812534298/${0}">Chosen for Death</a></i>, the superbly witty and decidedly feisty Thea Kozak is once again faced with murder very close to home. When the mother of her college roommate is slain near her well-appointed suburban home, Thea steals time away from her educational consulting business to investigate the crime--but not without first confronting the well-founded objections of her detective lover, Andre Lemieux. A truly unusual amateur detective, Thea struggles with emotional baggage, a deceitful employee, and even a fashion crisis as she seeks to uncover the truth. In her second Thea Kozak novel, author Kate Flora again offers up a remarkably entertaining and engaging character-driven plot that examines the intricacies of dysfunctional family life, emotional intimacy, and indivudual identity.
zlib_text: **Day of Sacrifice**
  
  By S.W. Benefiel
  
    
    
  
  Published by S. W. Benefiel
  
  Copyright © 2010 S. W. Benefiel
  
  All rights reserved.
  
    
    
  
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  **The Prophecy**
  
    
    
  
  Flora opened her eyes just in time to see the wide, pink, unlined palm of her
  Guardian Angel swinging toward her face. _Not again._ Rolling onto her back,
  she felt the force of the near smack as it blew her bangs back off of her
  forehead. Her Guardian may be quick, but Flora’s instincts were pretty
  flawless, even when she was hung over. From her position on the plush carpet
  of the hotel suite floor, she grinned up at Maggie, a sinister giggle escaping
  from the corner of her mouth.
  
  “I quit,” Maggie yelled, the power of her voice making the crystal chandelier
  quiver. “You’re the most insufferable Sacrifice I’ve ever been assigned to.
  You were responsible for your mother’s death, do you want to destroy the rest
  of your family with your immature antics?”
  
  “That’s a low blow and you know it. Fauna and I can’t help it that 