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:
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)
Websites
C.P.
Stiles
http://www.cpstiles.com
The Call
House
http://www.thecallhouse.com/
Twitter
@carostiles.com
Kindle
buy link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06ZZM1LFX
Bacon
Press Books
website
– http://www.baconpressbooks.com
blog –
http://www.baconandbooks.com
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