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L.M. Smith

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November 15, 1982

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L. M. Smith is the author of the Jazz Nemesis series, a gritty, genre-bending saga where faith meets fallout and humor still finds room to breathe. Her work fuses dark psychology with mythic world-building, creating stories that are equal parts cinematic and uncomfortably human.

She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with her husband Charles—the most perfect man on earth—a sassy black cat named Pandora, and a pack of extremely wacky Great Danes named Kratos, Freya, Xena, and sometimes Roxy, one of her seventeen grandpuppies, who visits often enough to count as family. When she’s not writing, she’s gaming (PlayStation over Xbox, every time), overanalyzing dialogue like it’s an Olympic sport, or making elaborate plans to finish all the projects she s ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 289 ratings · 100 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The Citizens (Jazz Nemesis, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Refugees (Jazz Nemesis, #2) 4.40 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dhampiri 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Lovely Creatures by B.C. Sirrom (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Jennifer Rainey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Charlotte Dhark (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Survivors (A Jazz Nemesis Novel Book 3) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A-Musing Adolescence 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Papa Smith Goes To Maui by L.M. Smith (Goodreads Author), Norm Smith (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inmates (Jazz Nemesis #4) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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She doesn’t flinch in the face of chaos. She calculates. She endures. And when everyone else loses their grip, she’s the one who still knows how to stand. But strength has a cost—and Piper’s been paying it for longer than anyone realizes.

She’s seen too much to be innocent, and lost too much to be soft. Yet there’s a part of her that still hopes there’s something left worth saving. Maybe that’s wha Read more of this blog post »

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Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish (Celtic World of Morgan Llywelyn #2)

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