Shadow

While I was walking down the aile of Perkins Library this morning, The Crimson Hour caught my eyes. It was on a small "Duke Authors" shelf, along with biochem and econ textbooks. I knew it wasn’t Chinese; it was English, but I just couldn’t figure out what the title said.

Great cover design.

The Crimson Hour
Julie Tetel Andresen
Published by Madeira Books
ISBN: 0-9654499-7-1

Chapter 1

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Eloise had always had it backwards. Her father had left her mother before she was born. She was hardly more than a toddler when she decided that she would be a good girl only after Daddy came back into her life. Throughout her girlhood and adolescence, she had used his absence as her excuse for doing, and not doing, almost everything, and the mistakes had sluiced through her life with the constancy of the Mississippi. But, then, with the help of Karen, Dr. Ding, Jeannie, and even the grad students, Eloise was turning what had begun as a crummy dead-end temp job into a real career. She was putting her life in order. She was beginning to make something of herself.

Her carry-on baggage was properly stowed. Her seat belt was securely fastened. Her seatback was in its fully upright position. She was ready for take-off.

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