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The
Call House
by
C.P. Stiles
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GENRE: Historical Fiction
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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?
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EXCERPT TWO:
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:
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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C.P. ~ It is great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
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