{"id":20,"date":"2021-02-15T10:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T10:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2021-02-16T01:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:03:44","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-711x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-711x1024.png 711w, https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-768x1106.png 768w, https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong>Two nursing students take an apartment in a Victorian house in San Francisco. One of these women gets involved in some steamy affairs with professional men and drugs. Sadly, she ends up dead. Poison was the cause of death, and it could have been an accident or murder. The poison came from a mushroom called Amanita ocreata. Several suspects could have profited by her death. The big question is, who knew about the poison and who also has a motive? The police find the case complicated by the world of transvestites, gays, drugs, and another death.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" title=\"Excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/excerpt-2\/\">Read an Excerpt<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-2-711x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-2-711x1024.png 711w, https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-2-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-2-768x1106.png 768w, https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/3d-book-2.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The sequel to <strong><em>Deadly Distrust<\/em><\/strong> occurs three years later during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco. The morals of sex are changing, and the LGBT community is in turmoil. Our heroine, Elinor DeMartini, inherits a large estate. However, the board of directors doesn\u2019t want her knowing about their corruption, and they don\u2019t want to stop the flow of money. When Elly tries to learn about her inheritance, one of the board members is killed. And so starts an action-packed struggle to survive the many dangers surrounding the pursuit of wealth.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" title=\"Excerpt \u2013 Ashes of Despair\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/excerpt-ashes-of-despair\/\">READ AN EXCERPT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two nursing students take an apartment in a Victorian house in San Francisco. One of these women gets involved in some steamy affairs with professional men and drugs. Sadly, she ends up dead. Poison was the cause of death, and it could have been an accident or murder. The poison came from a mushroom called &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/about-the-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Books&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/771245\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}