BARELY DEAD

<b>HARDCOVER EDITION</b><br /><br /> What connects a gay man, a murdered stripper, and a hazardous fertilizer plant?<br /><br /> When international journalist, Paige Harrington, is told her life-long friend, Wally Adams, the leading opponent of the plant, has committed suicide, she suspects murder.<br /><br /> A friend gives her one of Wally's personal files containing a dozen news clippings about a murdered stripper known as Peppermint and an oblique reference to ownership of the fertilizer plant, but nothing factually linking Wally, Peppermint, and the fertilizer plant.<br /><br /> But she knows Wally and she knows the file is so accident. To find the connection, she goes to work as a stripper and begins to uncover disturbing information.<br /><br /> Friends disappear; she is betrayed, and her life is in danger. Someone is risking everything to keep her from the truth.