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Strange Bedfellows
Author: Rob Byrnes
Published: September 18, 2012 by Bold Strokes Books
Main Character: Grant Lambert, Chase LaMarca, Lisa Cochrane, Mary Beth Reuss, Jamie Brock, Paul Farraday, Nick Donovan, Austin Peebles, David Carlyle, Margaret Campbell, Constance Price, June Forteene, Catherine Cooper Concannon, Kevin Wunder

If politics make for strange bedfellows, perhaps no bedfellows are stranger than Grant Lambert and Austin Peebles.

Austin Peebles is a professional politician with a problem: a prominent rightwing blogger has come into possession of a compromising cell phone photo of the congressional candidate… an image that could derail his campaign.

Enter Grant Lambert—a professional criminal who lives so far below society’s radar he’s never even registered to vote—and his partner in life and crime, Chase LaMarca. If Grant and Chase can make the picture disappear, they’ll make a cool $30,000. It sounds like easy money to the cash-strapped criminals, but then more pictures turn up, the double- and triple-crosses begin, and Grant, Chase, and their gang of gay and lesbian confederates find themselves immersed in the brutal sport of politics, as the stakes grow larger and the bedfellows get stranger and stranger…