Christa Faust: Fringe The Zodiac Paradox

“Well, I don’t know about you, Belly,” he said, setting the lighter down beside the ashtray and getting to his feet, “but I feel better already. It was the right thing to do.”

“I suppose so,” Bell said, his face unreadable.

“So,” Walter said, clapping his hands together. “Who wants pancakes?”

“That would be great,” Nina said, her curious gaze still locked with Bell. “Thanks.”

Walter disappeared into the kitchen. Cat-Mandu followed, mewing in anticipation of Tender Vittles.

Nina stepped up beside Bell, silent questions in her eyes. He smiled and opened the notebook, revealing the formula for the special blend, unharmed on a previous page.

Beneath the complex chemical formula was a list of several potential brand names for the blend. The last one on the list was circled twice.

Cortexaphan.

That had a nice ring to it.

“He’ll come around,” Bell said. “Just give him some time.”

Nina smiled. She knew that he was right.

Bell closed the notebook and put it back in his pocket.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author would like to thank Al Guthrie, Steve Saffel, Anna Songco, JoAnne Narcisse, Angela Park, Noreen O’Toole, Rob Chiappetta, Glen Whitman, Joel Wyman, and Nathan Long.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christa Faust is the author of a variety of media tie-ins and novelizations for properties such as Supernatural , Final Destination and Snakes on a Plane. She also writes hardboiled crime novels, including the Edgar Award-nominated Money Shot, Choke Hold, and the Butch Fatale series. She lives in Los Angeles. Her website is christafaust.net.

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FRINGE

THE BURNING MAN

By Christa Faust

As a child, Olivia Dunham is “Subject 13,” exposed to the experimental drug Cortexiphan. It has strange effects upon her—effects that manifest when her stepfather assaults her mother—with dire consequences.

All of her life, Olivia hides the strange things Cortexiphan has done to her. But the older she gets, the more difficult it becomes to suppress them. And when faced with a life-or-death situation, she can no longer deny her true nature. For if she does, someone close to her will die.

July 2013

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