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Deadly Karma
A Club Sortilege Tale
By Laura Tolomei
GENRE:
BDSM, Multiple Partners, Paranormal, Contemporary, Time-Travel, Gay Male-Male
WORDS# 49,982
LOGLINE
He wasn’t looking for love or soul mates. He was looking for that Halloween high. Such was his justification. What comes around goes around was more like it.
BLURB
When Eunice Saint Jacques meets Adrien Ascott at the Halloween party of one of New Orleans’s prestigious hotels, she thinks he’s cute.
Nah, she thinks he’s the most gorgeous creature ever. Little does she know he isn’t all that he seems to be, and that this Halloween will seal her destiny forever!
While it’s Presentation Night at Club Sortilege, the renowned New Orleans BDSM club, Yvette Carlisle, the Grand Master’s slave, is worried. What happened to her friend Eunice should never have happened.
Not now.
Hell, not for a long time.
Yet, here she is, talking to Adrien and uncovering an age-old curse that makes his karma as deadly as that of Count Dracula himself. Is it true, or is he spinning just another tale of bondage and sadism in the plush lounge of Club Sortilege?
Excerpt
Moi?
PG Excerpt
When Eunice met him, she thought he was cute.
Nah, whom was she kidding?
She thought he was the most gorgeous and perfect man in the world, but then she hadn’t met too many men, which could explain why she was as bewitched as a schoolgirl.
Which she wasn’t.
She was a full-grown woman with a job, friends, and all that jazz. The job was no more than a boring accountant’s task at an international shipping agency. The friends were two at most, Yvette Carlisle and Palomar Redondo, but who needed more?
Eunice Saint Jacques had never been a popular girl. Despite her fancy last name and illustrious heritage dating back to a once noble and wealthy French family, she’d been the wallflower of every high school party. The one other girls giggled about behind her back, the one no one bothered to speak to, not even to say hi. During those formative years as the only child of Javier and Francine, she’d been pretty much on her own, the lonely student of Crestwood High School in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
That’s where she’d been born and raised in utter misery and depression.
“Eunice, you stop that immediately!” Yvette’s shrill voice startled her. “You hear?”
“Stop what?” Playing the innocent, she gazed at her friend’s image in the mirror while studiously avoiding the reflection of herself.
“You know what.” On the opposite side of Yvette, Palomar sounded exasperated. “That daydreaming stuff you’re always so fond of.”
“Moi?” Eunice’s attempt at a joke failed to move either of her friends.
The three of them were crowded in her tiny–very tiny–flat in New Orleans. This desolate place was the refuge she’d managed to buy after ten-years’ worth of savings, so minuscule that there was scarcely enough space for the three of them. It had the bare minimum, a microscopic kitchen, a convertible sofa that became her bed at nights, a disproportionally large closet, an acceptable bathroom, and a TV set. Unfortunately, also a mirror, the same one they were all squashed against and that would determine her fate tonight.
“Come off it, Eunice,” Yvette’s voice was gentler. “Stop fooling around and concentrate on the dress. What do you think?”
Ah! One wonders how she came to be in a position to meet the gorgeous man! Good hook.
Isn’t that always the crux of the matter? What are the invisible threads that spin our life one way instead of another? That determine who crosses our path and who doesn’t?
Thanks for sharing!
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Small place for so many people but it’s hers
Yeah, you’re right. It’s very small, but at least it’s hers.
Thank for sharing, Janet.
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Great hook! Your writing continues to enthrall.
Dee
That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever told me! Thanks, Dee!
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Someone has seriously low self-esteem. Let’s hope her friends help her believe she’s a person of worth.
Yes, Eunice has self-esteem issues. This character is based on a colleague. The same person to whom I dedicated this book, and it’s the reason I chose to portray such a problematic individual. Self esteem is a real problem for many people, and their friends often cannot help them. I feel very strongly about this, and that”s why I created Eunice. Thanks for sharing, Karen.
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A nice scene between friends.
I am one of those low self-esteem people, and I hate how others down their noses at us as if we have the plague. Honestly, people don’t end up with low self-esteem just to bother those who think highly of themselves.
Eunice feels the same way. That’s why she’s been alone most of her life. But now she’s found Yvette and Palomar, two precious women who aren’t condescending nor patronizing. They don’t judge either, so Eunice can finally be herself and have some real friends. I get your frustration, Cie, but know that youu’re not alone and that there are understanding people out there.
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