“At one end of the conference table Martin Stratford sat considering, as he swirled the remaining coffee at the bottom of his cup, just how many of these meetings he had attended over the last forty years. He was anxious to get to his summer home on the North Fork of Eastern Long Island. It was mid-July, and the city was untenable. At the other end of the table his company’s president, J. P. Woods, sat looking as cool and unruffled as she always did. Martin considered for a moment whether J.P. e...ver broke a sweat. There was never a hair out of place on the damned woman, but she knew how to run a publishing house. He’d give her that. Still, she wasn’t the best-liked person in their industry, which was why he was considering someone else to sit in his chair next year. “Devlin!” J.P.’s voice grated on her employer’s ear. “What about Emilie Shann? How is her book coming? Are we going to have another three hundred and fifty pages of treacle? Or is she finally letting her heroine get screwed?”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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