The Call House
by C.P. Stiles
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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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Now for an 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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About the Author:
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)
Find her at:
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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