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    Sweet Surrender
    Sweet Surrender
    Sweet Surrender
    Ebook27 pages20 minutes

    Sweet Surrender

    By Ioana Visan

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    At the end of The Impaler's Revenge, Liana confessed she was dating a doctor. This short story unveils how that came to be.

    A bonus story in The Impaler Legacy series, a vampire saga like no other.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIoana Visan
    Release dateApr 12, 2013
    ISBN9781311136435
    Sweet Surrender
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    Ioana Visan

    Award-winning writer Ioana Visan has always dreamed about reaching the stars, but since she can't, she writes about it.After fighting the apocalypse aftermath in "Human Instincts", she played with shapeshifters in “Blue Moon Café Series: Where Shifters Meet for Drinks”, she dealt with vampires in “The Impaler Legacy” series, and then she designed prosthetics in “Broken People” before tackling longer works like a fantasy trilogy and a science fiction series.Aside from publishing short stories in various Romanian magazines and anthologies, she published a Romanian short story collection “Efectul de nautil” and the Romanian edition of “Human Instincts”.She received the Encouragement Award from The European Science Fiction Society at Eurocon 2013.For more information, please visit http://www.ioanavisan.tk

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      Sweet Surrender - Ioana Visan

      Sweet Surrender

      The Impaler Legacy #1.5

      Ioana Visan

      Copyright © 2013 Ioana Visan

      All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      SWEET SURRENDER

      The Impaler Legacy #1.5

      Copyright © 2013 Ioana Visan

      All rights reserved.

      Cover Photo by Alexandru Visan

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      First eBook Edition: April 2013

      At the end of The Impaler's Revenge, Liana confessed she was dating a doctor. This short story unveils how that came to be.

      A bonus story in The Impaler Legacy series, a vampire saga like no other.

      Table of Contents

      Sweet Surrender

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Books by Ioana Visan

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      The first couple of days after President Stănescu’s resignation had been crazy. In the absence of an elected President, the Little Council stepped in, as required by the law. It kept us all pretty busy. Several older Council members returned from retirement to make sure the system wasn’t

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