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Jesse Jordan's life is going nowhere fast-delivering pizzas by day, sketching monsters by night, and running dirty money for a local crime boss. Then he meets Taria. Every guy wants to meet the girl of his dreams. But Jesse actually meets the girl from his. She is mysterious and magical, and swears they're destined to be together. There's just one problem: she's the niece of the most dangerous man Jesse knows. Magic comes with a price. When Taria vanishes, and with the threat of danger looming over him, Jesse must navigate a world where ghosts offer guidance, voodoo practitioners speak a cryptic version of the truth, and the lines between dreams and reality blur into one another. Jesse must choose between the safe, ordinary life he thought he wanted and a love so powerful it can literally alter fate. Clifford Evan, daddy of two, has lived in New York City, New Orleans, and south Florida, working more strange jobs than he can count on three hands, including pizza delivery driver (but solely in a legal capacity). He received an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and currently teaches in the Department of Writing Studies at Montclair State University. Best that he is aware, no one has ever done magic, witchcraft, or cast a spell on him, but he acknowledges the possibility. He could even make a compelling case that some unseen forces played a guiding hand in the publication of A Death Never Lived, only that's a story better saved for a podcast.

What happens when your dreams, your heart, and your survival instincts all pull you in different directions?Jesse Jordan is stuck delivering pizza in a Florida beach town and running dirty money for a local crime boss just to get a little ahead in life. Art school rejected him. His best friend died in the war. His future looks like a one-way ticket to nowhere.Then she appears.Taria is everything Jesse never knew he needed-mysterious, magical, and completely out of his league. She talks to spirits and swears they're destined to be together. There's just one problem: she's the niece of the most dangerous man Jesse knows.And she's about to turn his entire world upside down.Because Taria sees something in Jesse that he's never seen in himself. Something worth fighting for. Something worth dying for.This isn't your typical love story.It's about finding yourself when everything you thought you knew gets ripped away. It's about that moment when you have to choose between playing it safe and risking everything for the life you actually want.Jesse's about to learn that some choices can't be undone, and some loves are literally written in the stars.