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Old 07-05-2016, 04:56 PM   #1006
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It was originally from the Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down anthology (from MIRA). That's the version I just bought as I didn't realize it had a connected story in it. Plus I used one of my free Harlequin My Rewards codes.

She just "reprinted" it, along with two other short stories in a Kindle only collection: Secret Hideaway.

Secret Hideaway (kindle) includes:
  • Secret Hideaway (originally in Sweet Dreams anthology May 2015) story from her Texas Rangers series
  • On the Run (originally in Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down anthology June 2009) story from her US Marshals series
  • Cold Moonlight (originally in Thriller 3: Love is Murder anthology June 2012) story from her Black Falls

I just tagged it as #8 (rather than #7.5) because even though it's not a full-length book, the first book in the series is a novella from the days before the whole .5 numbering system became in vogue. So it goes #1 novella, #2 full-length, #3, etc so it made sense to me to keep using whole numbers. Also,
Cold Moonlight is listed as #4 at Fiction DB and on her website in the Black Falls series - again a whole number for a short story (not even novella length).

I tend to use whatever the author's website starts out with for my numbering. That's why I also use whole numbers rather than .5s for the In Death novellas. And that's why I have Nalini Singh's Rock Courtship as #2 as that's the way it was listed for well over a year on her website. And though I have gone back and renumbered a few series to make novellas/short stories x.5 in Calibre, I stopped doing so as some authors change back and I can't keep up. I'm not on Goodreads so their numbering system not matching mine doesn't bother me. They have a number of books labelled incorrectly in their data there and many that are part of series aren't even recognized as such so... The same with FictionDB and Fantastic Fiction. Plus often the numbering systems between the three of those sites don't even match.

TL;DR version #8 for the US Marshals series is a short story
K thanks...I'll have a look.
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