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Animal World

Animal World

eBook: $5.99
Author: Joseph Hirsch
Genres: Coming of age, Crime, LGBTQ+, Novel
Tags: featured, new
Publisher: Close To The Bone
Publication Year: 2026
Format: 5.25 x 8
Length: 311 pages
ASIN: B0GNRB97TZ
ISBN: 9798248350872
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About the Book

“…Everyone has secrets. Not everyone’s secrets can get them killed…”

Shasta Allenworth and Tizoc Cisneros have a problem. They fell madly in love while locked up together in a California prison and the passage of time has only deepened their love. That wouldn’t be a problem if the world could accept them as they are, but their respective worlds have little room for romance. Shasta works the streets—selling her body in hopes of one day earning enough money to get a sex change. To become in body what she has always been in mind, spirit, and the eyes of her lover: a woman.

Tizoc, meanwhile, is deep into the dope game, and has his own dreams of one day going legit, becoming an entrepreneur with his own fleet of food trucks.

Soon a chance to make a big score appears, offering Shasta and Tiz a way to escape the streets, and to fulfill their dreams. But the path ahead is dangerous, and will take both from the smalltime to a world of international intrigue where death waits around every corner. It is a brutal world. An animal world.

Animal World is a tale of star-crossed lovers doing what they can to buck fate and make their dreams come true. Much like an updated Dog Day Afternoon, it is a crime drama that recognizes the world is cold and leaves little room for love. So little room, in fact, that sometimes committing a crime is the only way to give that love a chance.

Joseph Hirsch

Joseph Hirsch’s shorter noir works have appeared in numerous outlets, including Retreats from Oblivion: A Journal of NoirCon, Dark Yonder, Close To The Bone, and Mystery Tribune. Several of his crime novels have also been published, including Rolling Country, available from Moonshine Cove Publishing, and Flash Blood from Damnation Books. His non-noir fiction has appeared in outlets as disparate as 3AM Magazine and Frontier Tales. His nonfiction—scholarly articles, sports pieces—were featured everywhere from Film International to Fight Hype.
He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is online
@ www.joeyhirsch.com.

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