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    Virginia City: A Short Story
    Virginia City: A Short Story
    Virginia City: A Short Story
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    Virginia City: A Short Story

    By Joelle Fraser

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    What happens when you’ve saved all year, and ride 500 miles, to go on the bike vacation of your life—and you piss off the wrong biker?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoelle Fraser
    Release dateDec 5, 2014
    ISBN9781310600210
    Virginia City: A Short Story
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    Joelle Fraser

    Joelle Fraser is an award-winning author of two books, The Territory of Men, and The Forest House. She’s also the publisher of HardRider Press, whose short stories are set in the motorcycle world. www.joellefraser.com

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      Virginia City - Joelle Fraser

      Virginia City

      A Short Story

      HardRider Series #2

      By Joelle Fraser

      Hard Rider Icon

      Copyright

      Virginia City

      A Short Story

      HardRider Series #2

      Copyright ©2014 by Joelle Fraser

      Smashwords Edition

      The characters and events in this story are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

      All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Cover image design by Pro_ebookcovers.

      Icon of motorcycle copyright jackrust / 123RF Stock Photo, used with permission.

      Author photo by Noah Porter, used with permission.

      Published by HardRider Press

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      Virginia City

      Too Good to Be True Excerpt

      The HardRider Series

      About the Author

      Virginia City

      They roll into Reno at noon, the four of them—Carl and Mac, Sandy and Jill on the back. All morning, riding down I-5 from Grants Pass, Oregon, then across 44 through Lassen National Forest, they’d seen motorcycles.

      Carl stopped counting at Shasta City. Every time they pass a gas station or a diner and see another half dozen motorcycles, Carl feels a stab of excitement. He knows where they’re going because he’s going there, too: Street Vibrations in Reno—30,000 bikes!

      Goose bumps pop up on his arms and chest. He can see them on his arms and wonders if Sandy notices.

      Damn! The casinos sit on the tabletop of the desert like giant cereal boxes—the kind with toys in them, the sugary kind you’re not supposed to eat when you’re grown up. He’s never been to Reno, but he has a lot of interesting ideas about what goes on in those casinos.

      The temperature is rising by the minute; he can feel it on his face. He loves this dry, desert heat that sucks out any last moisture from his Oregon flesh.

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