THE GOLDEN HOUR
Sensual/Romance/ 32,300 words
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THE GOLDEN HOUR by Eliza Crowe
Summary
First loves never really go away. Let just get relegated to dreams…or nightmares.
In The Golden Hour sex is intoxicating, empowering and self-defining.
Sex is a tool and a weapon. It is also a reminiscence. Sarah and Malek had a passionate and destructive relationship. At their last encounter, they promised to meet twenty years later in that exact hour at their favorite restaurant in Nice. Now forty-two, Sarah waits at the Il Fortuna Cafe in the golden light of late afternoon Nice.
Will Malek be the same mysterious man he was? Will he still want her? Will he even come?
Sarah doesn’t mind the heat. She sits on the terrace of Il Fortuna, a small café pinched into a corner of Old Nice, the same corner she sat in twenty years ago. The café is mostly unchanged except for the large green awning protecting the terrace from the oppressive sun. The old town has a haunted, run-down feeling. Paint peels off its walls. Yellowed dust cloths cover the furniture. The few people who still have business here flit through the shadows of the afternoon like wraiths. Brightly colored scarves protect their faces. Their footsteps ring out on the cobblestones, an echo of when metal-shod horses cantered through the streets.
From the terrace, Sarah listens for these footsteps thinking, “Is that him?” She tries not to peer down the winding lane, but inevitably gives in to nervous curiosity. When it turns out not to be her date, she sits back heavily in her chair, fiddles her napkin and checks her teeth for stray lipstick in a cosmetic mirror.
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The Golden Hour © 2009 by Eliza Crowe
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This book is a work of fiction. Characters, names, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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