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Just when things seem to have calmed down at The Last Word Bookstore, all hell breaks loose. Sal, Camden, and the rest of the band of merry misfit booksellers suddenly face both a war with a nefarious rival and the possibility that a new bookseller in town is, in fact, a vampire. And you thought bookselling was boring.

By its very nature, writing is a solitary endeavor. Most writers are fine with that, but even the most introverted enjoy the occasional conversation with another writer, someone who actually understands why we do it. This book is that conversation, one writer to another.

Sal Terranova and Camden Templeton are cousins separated by upbringing, the Atlantic Ocean, and a common language. But fate, a run of bad luck, and a dead uncle have thrown them together, and together they must save the family bookstore from financial ruin, from its own insane employees, and probably from themselves. This is the story of what happens when The Sopranos meets Fawlty Towers...in a bookstore.

Sal Terranova and Camden Templeton have survived their first year as co-owners of The Last Word Bookstore...barely. Just when things are starting to look almost normal, a stranger arrives and gives normal a whole new meaning. As Sal, Camden, and the rest of the staff are about to learn, books are one thing, but writers are something else entirely. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore...

Things seem to be going well at The Last Word Bookstore, but appearances, much like book covers, can be deceiving. Sal Terranova needs a new challenge, and Jake Donovan...well, Jake has no clue what he needs. The answer comes to both of them from a most unexpected source, one which will lead them and their friends on a journey of biblical proportions. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bookstore...

The heroes of the Bible have come down to us through the centuries as towering figures immortalized in marble and stained glass. But the actual text of the Bible presents a far more complicated, and more encouraging, picture of these Old and New Testament saints. From Moses to Jonah, from Peter to Paul, they were like us in every way. This book tells the other side of the story you got in Sunday school.

In this collection of stories from the world of The Last Word Bookstore, we witness the highs and lows, the victories and defeats, the real and the ridiculous of the world's greatest profession: Bookselling. This anthology contains both stories from the first three Last Word novels as well as several brand new literary adventures. Come join Sal, Camden, and all the other inmates of this biblio-asylum as we see once again what happens when The Sopranos meets Fawlty Towers...in a bookstore.