SOULS for SALE IIWILL JONES
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The opening of Souls for Sale II, complete and unedited, as a PDF you can keep. Chapter One, Chapter Six and Chapter Thirteen — the three that show you what the book actually is.

01GatheringChapter 1
06InventoryChapter 6
13LeverageChapter 13

Sixteen pages. Ends with a page pointing you to the complete book on Amazon.

Chapter One

Gathering

Morning came through the brownstone slow. Light slid across the hardwood and caught the dust before it settled on the shelves. Old trophies still lined the wall next to family pictures that hadn’t moved in years. Nothing in the house looked different, and that almost made it worse.

J was dressed before the sun hit the windows. Black suit, cut close through the shoulders, expensive without trying to say so. Too clean for most of Bethany this early. The gold chain sat outside his collar against his chest, heavier than he was used to. His father had clasped it around his neck before he left Westchester and told him not to take it off.

He stood up there another second before he went down.

His mother was at the kitchen counter pouring tea into her favorite mug. She moved slower than she used to, more careful, but she still carried herself like nothing had changed. Mariah was always good at that. Making tired look like order. Making pain mind its business when company was coming.

The sample picks up here.

Free Bus 13 cover: the empty interior of a city bus at night, rain streaking the windows, red numerals reading 13 above the aisle.
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Bus 13

Three chapters give you the novel’s opening. Bus 13 gives you a whole finished story: twenty pages, eight chapters, one bus ride that stops making sense. Same voice, same darkness, nothing withheld.

An empty Bethany street in fog.
When the sample runs out

The rest of Bethany is waiting.