Run For Your Midlife

RUN FOR YOUR MIDLIFE GOOD TO THE LAST DEATH, BOOK NINE ROBYN PETERMAN CONTENTS Acknowledgments More In The Good To The Last Death Series Book Description Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Next In The Good To The Last Death Series Robyn’s Book List Excerpt: The Write Hook Book Description Chapter 1 Note From The Author About Robyn Peterman Copyright © 2023 by Robyn Peterman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is coincidental. This book contains content that may not be suitable for young readers 17 and under. Cover design by Cookies Inc. Edited by Kelli Collins ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Good To The Last Death Series is a pleasure to write. Run For Your Midlife took me on a wild ride. Telling stories is my passion and my passion has been fulfilled with this series. Daisy, Gideon and the gang bring me an absurd amount of joy and I hope you feel the same way. As always, writing may be a solitary sport, but it takes a whole bunch of people to make the magic happen. Renee — Thank you for my beautiful cover and for being the best badass critique partner in the world. TMB. LOL Kelli — Your editing makes me look like a better writer. Thank you. Wanda — You are the freaking bomb. Love you to the moon and back. Heather, Nancy, Caroline, Susan and Wanda — Thank you for reading early and helping me find the booboos. You all rock. My Readers — Thank you for loving the stories that come from my warped mind. It thrills me. Steve, Henry and Audrey — Your love and support makes all of this so much more fun. I love you people endlessly. DEDICATION For Kurt the Bastard. I will love you and miss you forever. MORE IN THE GOOD TO THE LAST DEATH SERIES ORDER BOOK 10 TODAY! BOOK DESCRIPTION RUN FOR YOUR MIDLIFE Lately, my life has been a big, fat, hairy midlife crisis. I could really go for a boring day or three. Apparently, there’s no rest for the over-forty crowd. Yes, I have fabulous friends. Yes, I have a beautiful baby. Yes, the ghosts are coming back home. Yes, I’m in love with the Grim Reaper. However, that sexy Demon has got some major ’splainin’ to do…like his possible involvement in the shocking kidnapping of my worst and most deadly enemy. With a drag queen and an ice queen as my back up, we’re going to sashay away into the Darkness to find the truth and turn a wrong into a right. Although, I’m learning fast that black and white are often clouded with of shades of gray. Whatever. I’m putting on my rose colored glasses and going for it. I plan to live midlife in peace… not pieces. Good luck to me. CHAPTER ONE I turned and looked. In the midst of being frightened out of my mind, I laughed. Yes, my worst and most dangerous enemy was here in ghostly form and decomposing in my front yard, but on the porch stood the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in all their drag queen glory. They were clad in skimpy bathing suits. Their eyes were deep black pools, and their horns were out. Of course, their makeup was perfect and their stilettos matched their suits. They were terrifyingly gorgeous, and I was happy they were on my team. Candy Vargo aka Karma stood to their left with the beloved ghost of my gram hovering next to her. Tory—the wild card, who I liked even though she didn’t seem to want my friendship—stood by Gram to make sure she didn’t flicker away. “Is that a ghost?” Zadkiel bellowed with rage. What was left of his decaying body trembled with fury. “No ghosts are allowed here.” Before I could answer, the monster flew like a bullet out of a gun toward Gram. Candy Vargo blasted him with an explosion that should have turned him to ash. It didn’t. However, the house didn’t survive. The four queens and Tory surrounded Gram to protect her, but it wasn’t looking good. I moved without a thought. I moved at the speed of light. I moved to stop the monster from harming another person who I loved. He’d already hurt me enough. It was shocking that even dead he could wreak such destruction. Tackling Zadkiel to the ground and holding him tight, I felt myself fall. Gideon, the love of my Immortal life, tried to stop the natural progression of what was happening. His roar sounded far away, but his voice was a touchstone to reality that was quickly disappearing. I’d already set the action in motion, and there was no way to stop it. Actions always had consequences. Reality would have to wait for me. I’d just accidentally mind dived into my despicable archenemy. * * * The cold. The cold went all the way to my bones and tore through my body like sharp, frozen daggers made of ice. Trying to catch my breath, I gasped for air and screamed. The only sound that left my lips came from so far away I could barely hear it. My head pounded violently, and every single cell in my body screamed for oxygen. I knew exactly what was happening, and it wasn’t good. I’d entered Zadkiel’s mind. Never in a million years would