Steve had been working as a grave robber before running into Shannon Japan in the most unlikely of places. He had only dabbled in grave robbing for a couple of weeks. Just to make ends meet. Before that, he had been a legitimate grave digger working for a little mom and pop mortuary service. But digging holes in the ground hadn’t exactly made him rich, and it barely covered the costs on the upkeep for the condo he’d paid off shortly after returning from his overseas work.

He’d resorted to digging up corpses in the middle of the night once the idea struck him that a lot of rich women were buried with their wedding rings still on. After the first, he was inspired to dig up more by the sizeable return he’d gotten off of a string of freshwater pearls at a pawn shop in a neighboring to...

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