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    Queen City Ruby
    Queen City Ruby
    Queen City Ruby
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    Queen City Ruby

    By Alex Cage

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    AN EX-SPECIAL FORCES MARTIAL ARTIST

    A GROUP OF DANGEROUS JEWEL THIEVES

    AND ENOUGH ACTION TO GIVE YOU A HEART ATTACK…

    When he encounters a teenager being pursued by a group of dangerous jewel thieves, Orlando Black finds himself in the wrong place at the right time. He helps the kid escape successfully, but things really heat up when one of Black's old friends is caught in the middle of the thieves' heist. To save her, he must face the thieves in a final showdown.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Cage
    Release dateMar 1, 2019
    ISBN9780998228587
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      Queen City Ruby - Alex Cage

      Queen City RubyAlex Cage Action Thrillers

      JOIN THE READER’S LIST

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      ALSO BY ALEX CAGE

      Orlando Black Series

      Carolina Dance

      Bayside Boom

      Family Famous (Novella)

      Bet on Black

      Leroy Silver Series

      Contracts & Bullets

      Aloha & Bullets

      READING ORDER

      The heart-stopping, action-packed Orlando Black books can be read in any order, but are best enjoyed in the following sequence:

      Carolina Dance (Book1)

      Queen City Ruby (Short Story)

      Survival Intuition (A Rose Lee Flash Fiction Story) *

      Sunshine Scandal (Short Story)

      Once You Go Black (Short Story)

      Bayside Boom (Book 2)

      Family Famous (Novella)

      Bet on Black (Book 3)

      * Currently the eBook, Survival Intuition, is only available to A+ members on the Alex Cage Reader’s list.

      You can sign up for a free read and an opportunity for A+ status:

      www.AlexCage.com/signup

      QUEEN CITY RUBY

      AN ORLANDO BLACK STORY

      ALEX CAGE

      This book is a work of fiction. The characters, places, and situations were all created from the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner and are not to be interpreted as real. Any parallels to actual people, places, or situations, living or dead, are completely coincidental.

      Queen City Ruby. An Orlando Black Story

      Copyright © 2018 by Alex Cage. All rights reserved.

      Excerpt from Carolina Dance copyright © 2018 by Alex Cage. All rights reserved

      www.AlexCage.com

      ISBN: 978-0-9982285-8-7 (ebook)

      All rights reserved. No portion of the book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any other information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the author.

      Request to publish work from this book should be sent to:

      Alex@AlexCage.com

      CONTENTS

      Queen City Ruby

      More Orlando Black

      Carolina Dance

      Thank you for reading

      Also By Alex Cage

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      About the Author

      IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN while the night still covered the sky, a limousine stopped at a red light. In the back of the limousine sat a well-dressed man. He held a suitcase in his lap. On either side of him were two expensive and highly trained bodyguards. In the front driver and passenger seats sat two more.

      The man patted the suitcase impatiently.

      One of the guards noticed. Mr. Geltz, we're close to the building, he said.

      Geltz nodded.

      Without warning, a loud boom flowed from the front of the limousine.

      The guards in the back with Geltz pulled out their guns. One of them opened his door. The other reached for his own door handle, but the blade of a sword penetrated the roof of the car and stabbed him.

      Geltz hollered in fear as the surviving guard pulled him out of the car.

      Let's go, sir! the guard yelled, before a small knife pierced the side of his neck and dropped him to his knees.

      Geltz fell back onto his butt. He looked to the hood of the limousine and

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