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Guided by cryptic recollections and a promise from Sasha, Wolf confronts the atmosphere of loss, hidden secrets, and unsettling symbols tied to death and rebirth. The story opens in a tense prologue and then shifts into flashback-driven revelations about identity, guilt, and survival.","A Dead Man’s B-Side  \nA Dead Man’s B-Side  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2026 by Yasmine Mammeri  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without permission from the author, except for brief quotations  \nin reviews.  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author ’s imagination or used fictitiously.  \nFirst edition.  \nISBN: 9798249177638  \nPublished independently through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing .  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo the ones staring down a blank Google Docs; I’m rooting for you.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nA DeadMan’s B-Side  \nPrologue  \nChapter One  \nChapter Two  \nChapter Three  \nChapter Four  \nFlashback  \nChapter Five  \nChapter Six  \nChapter Seven  \nChapter Eight  \nChapter Nine  \nChapter Ten  \nChapter Eleven  \nFlashback  \nChapter Twelve  \nChapter Thirteen  \nChapter Fourteen  \nChapter Fifteen  \nChapter Sixteen  \nChapter Seventeen  \nChapter Eighteen  \nChapter Nineteen  \nChapter Twenty  \nChapter Twenty-one  \nFlashback  \nChapter Twenty-two  \nChapter Twenty-three  \nChapter Twenty-four  \nFlashback  \nChapter Twenty-five  \nChapter Twenty-six  \nChapter Twenty-seven  \nChapter Twenty-eight  \nFlashback  \nChapter Twenty-nine  \nChapter Thirty  \nEpilogue  \nAcknowledgements  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nThree years after the disappearance of Alexandr “Sasha” Miroslav, Wolf Kingsley hired a private investigator who’d pointed him in the direction of a graveyard situated just outside of New York City. It was upstate and rather large for how deep Wolf had to drive into the abyss of greenery to find it.  \nOn that particularly icy day, Wolf ’s black dress shoes, shiny almost to the point of being reflective, crunched against the dry and fallen leaves ashe kept an eye on the dark clouds rolling in, promising rain and thunder.  \nHe was alone in the desolate necropolis, and the slight wariness crawling up his spine–or perhaps it was a chill from the wind–made him slide his hands into his long coat pockets, gripping tight to the familiar stainless-steel handle of a gift he’d received in what now felt like a past life.  \nUpon reaching his destination, Wolf tilted his head and admired the headstone in front of him. His eyes drifted to what lay next to it, long enough for a chuckle to rumble off his chest at the plastic flowers sitting ina stained mason jar next to the words to die is to be reborn. Then, he remembered something Sasha had told him a long time ago in the secrecy of his dorm. When they were only young and foolish schoolboys. When everyone had shuffled back to the comfort of their beds, one by one, and it was only the two of them.  \nIn those rare moments of night, Sasha would share tiny pieces of himself he wouldn’t otherwise share with anybody else–or at least Wolf had let himself believe. \"When I die, I want to be buried in an empty field somewhere in Norway. Or on the Aleutian Islands. Somewhere quiet where the only interruptions would be…I don’t know, the fall of a tree or the race of a rabbit.\"  \nWolf huffed out a laugh, the cigarette smoke he'd inhaled billowing around him, almost catching in his throat and making him choke out, \"What  \nmade you decide that?\"  \nSasha offered no explanation. He only shrugged and gestured for the cigarette they'd been sharing. At the time, Wolf hadn’t cared enough to ask. He found it comical, sure, intriguing. But he simply brushed it off.  \nBecause he knew the boy, and Sasha always liked offering cryptic musings.  \nSometimes he wished that he had–asked, that is.  \nLooking down at the tombstone now, Wolf wished he asked Sasha alot of things and really got to know the one who laid his sanity on the line for him–all the reasons he'd avert his eyes or why they often glazed over with a faraway look.  \nAll the secrets he kept close to his chest and well hidden in the coffer of his mind.  \nAnything he could use a","cbCaihq44Pw8za08","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihq44Pw8za08","pdf",2038248,5,378,"English","en",105,"# Prologue\n## Chapter One\n## Chapter Two\n## Chapter Three\n## Chapter Four\n## Flashback\n## Chapter Five\n## Chapter Six\n## Chapter Seven\n## Chapter Eight\n## Chapter Nine\n## Chapter Ten\n## Chapter Eleven\n## Flashback\n## Chapter Twelve\n## Chapter Thirteen\n## Chapter Fourteen\n## Chapter Fifteen\n## Chapter Sixteen\n## Chapter Seventeen\n## Chapter Eighteen\n## Chapter Nineteen\n## Chapter Twenty\n## Chapter Twenty-one\n## Flashback\n## Chapter Twenty-two\n## Chapter Twenty-three\n## Chapter Twenty-four\n## Flashback\n## Chapter Twenty-five\n## Chapter Twenty-six\n## Chapter Twenty-seven\n## Chapter Twenty-eight\n## Flashback\n## Chapter Twenty-nine\n## Chapter Thirty\n## Epilogue\n## Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"What is the inciting event that brings Wolf Kingsley to the graveyard?\",\"answer\":\"Three years after Alexandr “Sasha” Miroslav’s disappearance, Wolf hires a private investigator who leads him to a large graveyard outside New York City.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Sasha influence Wolf’s actions and thoughts at the tomb?\",\"answer\":\"Wolf remembers Sasha’s cryptic desire to be buried somewhere quiet in Norway or the Aleutian Islands, which deepens his sense of connection and mystery.\"},{\"question\":\"What themes are introduced in the opening chapter framing?\",\"answer\":\"The opening highlights confession-like reflection, identity and guilt, and the idea of death and rebirth through eerie symbolism and fragmented memory.\"}]","A Dead Man’s B-Side - 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