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Better Than Chocolate

Bruce Golden

Noah Dane is a mid-21st Century San Francisco police inspector who, while hunting his partner's killer and investigating a pair of seemingly unrelated murders, stumbles onto a conspiracy that threatens all humanity. Noah is driven by the guilt over his partner's death. That guilt begins to eat at him, eventually rendering the notorious lothario impotent. In addition, much to his dismay, someone in the city's bureaucracy has a warped sense of humor. Noah's new crime-fighting partner is a celebudroid created to look and act like Marilyn Monroe. Comic juxtaposition ensues when her original programming seeps into her police work. On the other side of town Chastity Blume is a celebrity talk show host known as America's Favorite Virgin. Her quest to find the mother she's never known uncovers family secrets she would rather not have learned, along with a sinister plot that involves her father and a cabal of alien immigrants. Together they lead a cast of quirky characters towards a climax of comically sexy proportions, through a science fiction mystery where all the clues lead to an insanely popular virtual reality game that's Better Than Chocolate.

GenresLiterature & FictionScience Fiction & FantasyScience FictionAlien InvasionHumorousCrime & Mystery

285 pages

English edition · First published 2023 by Independently published · ISBN 9798868488757

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