Death of the Party
Death of the Party
““I expected to sell out.” Her tone was frosty. She sat in regal splendor in the high-backed signing chair, colorful in an aquamarine velour caftan, her short silver hair spiky as an irritated porcupine’s, her square-jawed face demanding.
Annie restrained herself from strangling the island’s most successful—and impossible—mystery writer. They’d sold 186 copies of The Plight of the Panicked Panther. That was amazing for an early February signing. Moreover, had they sold out—God forbid—Emma would ...have been at her throat for not ordering enough copies! Annie felt her cheeks burn.
Laurel Roethke clapped her hands. “Family, friends, Islanders, mystery aficionados, we gather here today…” She paused, tipped her head in thought, her golden hair softly swirling.
Annie shifted her glare to Laurel, immediately began to smile. Max’s mother might be spacey as a moon launch, but she was also the soul of tact, and she was now hastening to fling herself, metaphorically speaking, between an enraged bookseller and an intractable author.MoreLess
Annie restrained herself from strangling the island’s most successful—and impossible—mystery writer. They’d sold 186 copies of The Plight of the Panicked Panther. That was amazing for an early February signing. Moreover, had they sold out—God forbid—Emma would ...have been at her throat for not ordering enough copies! Annie felt her cheeks burn.
Laurel Roethke clapped her hands. “Family, friends, Islanders, mystery aficionados, we gather here today…” She paused, tipped her head in thought, her golden hair softly swirling.
Annie shifted her glare to Laurel, immediately began to smile. Max’s mother might be spacey as a moon launch, but she was also the soul of tact, and she was now hastening to fling herself, metaphorically speaking, between an enraged bookseller and an intractable author.MoreLess
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