7/31/2023 0 Comments Archy mcnally![]() In Chapter One, my heroine is hustling drinks in a dive like this. "My readers wouldn't have it any other way, Mr. Her dark eyes scanned me, from head to size-eleven white bucks, as her claret lips curved into a condescending smile. Wright, that you are sitting in the most infamous bar in South Florida?" I moved in closer but avoided mounting the empty stool next to her. The delivery announced her point of origin with neither pride nor shame, but as a matter of fact. How good of you to come." The voice was deep-if she sang she would be an alto-and pure New York. ![]() Needless to say, I approached with caution. Sabrina Wright's oeuvre had spawned films, miniseries, and a long-running evening soap. For the visually challenged they were available in large print as well as Braille. She subsequently penned such memorable classics as Deceptive Desire, Dark Desire, Demanding Desire, Devious Desire, and Delicious Desire, as well as this year's sensation, Desperate Desire.Ĭollectively known as the Books of Desire, they had been released as a Moroccan-leather boxed set, illustrated in full color, and translated into thirty languages, including Swahili. Her first, Darling Desire (Darling being the heroine's given name), enjoyed fifty-two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, usurped, finally, by her second blockbuster, Dangerous Desire. Sabrina Wright's novels are bodice-rippers par excellence. Before her was a frothy concoction in a stemmed glass known, I believe, as a Pink Lady. ![]() She wore a smart white linen suit and black-and-white sling-back pumps that drew just enough attention to her well-turned ankles and calves. Her eyes were like two shiny black olives her complexion was one that had never felt the sun's warmth and her lips, painted the color of a fine Bordeaux, were pursed in an elongated moue reminiscent of the late actress Joan Crawford. Her ebony hair was drawn back so severely from her scalp as to render her startled at what e'er she looked upon and, I suspect, served as a do-it-yourself face-lift. She was perched on a faux leather stool at Bar Anticipation looking exactly as she did in her author photo on the jacket of her latest bestseller, Desperate Desire. ![]()
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