Blurb:
A war on vice In Washington, DC—a
city constantly awash in scandals? Hard to believe, but it really
happened. Only not exactly the way it’s
told here.
All Mattie Simon knows is that
she wants adventure and her hometown doesn’t have any. She wants independence,
maybe some romance.
All Andrew Stevens wants is to do
his job as a newly-elected congressman.
But Washington has a way of
changing people—even when they get what they want.
Fast-paced and funny, The Call
House takes you back to a time of relative innocence, when people flocked to
the nation’s capital to do good works and instead got caught up in sex, money,
and politics. What else would you expect?
Excerpt:
BETTY Prince gently tugged on the
frayed cord from the Venetian blinds. If she pulled too hard, the blinds would
slip off their brackets and crash to the floor, startling the Congressman
awake. She only wanted to let in the sunlight, to let Congressman Stevens know
his long night of working in his office was over. It was the third time this
week she’d found him asleep on that cracked leather couch. He was working too
hard.
Andrew Stevens kept his eyes shut
against the sun. He could feel the stiffness in his neck from sleeping without
a pillow. His legs felt tight from trying to fit his six-foot-two-inch frame
onto a couch four inches too short. He could tell he needed a shower. But he
wasn’t ready to face the day and he wasn’t ready for another one of Betty’s
lectures. She meant well, but the last thing he needed in Washington was
another woman watching over him.
Too many of his colleagues’ wives
had already overwhelmed him with kindness. His small refrigerator held more
casseroles, more congealing dishes of Welsh rarebit, than he could eat in a
month. Plus, all the dinner invitations. Always to meet some eligible niece in
town visiting. Some dear female friend.
The wives embarrassed him by
saying they were sure he’d be one of the brightest stars in Congress. They
insisted he needed a good woman behind him to help him get ahead. His own
mother, back home in Michigan, wrote him weekly to say the same thing.
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Author Bio and Links:
C. P. Stiles is a fiction writer
living in Washington, DC. This is her first novel.
From the Author:
I've been writing all my life.
When I first heard the story
about the best-known, high-priced call house on the East Coast located right in
the middle of a nice residential neighborhood - I was intrigued. I'm still not
sure why. Even after spending a few years researching and many more years
writing. Maybe it's the idea of having something sort of shady going on right
down the street and none of the neighbors had the faintest idea. (Warning: No
sex or even steamy scenes).
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ReplyDeleteI love all I have read so far, and can't wait to see how this story turns out.
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