The Women of Smuggler's Return
Today women are empowered all over America. My book features strong women characters who drive the story and makes this one sexy Miami comic crime story. These are quotes directly from the book.
ALICIA page 59
“Not
beautiful in the movie star sense, she had the strong features and smooth
unblemished skin of a model. She was sexy the way intelligent women are sexy,
middle age empowering her looks by removing the frivolity of youth and
replacing it with the regal appearance of a woman used to getting her way.
Slender and tall and in excellent shape from years of exercise and diet, she
looked great, like she had lots of money and spent it on her sense of style and
poise.”
Alicia is
Rooster’s ex-wife, who ran off with his attorney while he was incarcerated. The
attorney, Sheldon, is the man Johnny Fallon is after to collect a half-million
dollars. Rooster and Alicia have a teenage son Chris who is a club soccer
player and smart young man. Alicia will be a major player in the climax of the
story.
PAULA page 81“Arriving
passengers came down the walkway toward them. They both stopped to look at a
beautiful young woman with long straight dark brown hair pushing a lightweight
stroller where a toddler sat waving a plastic bag of cookies at everyone. She
wore a tan suede skirt and boots and a black pullover light sweater that showed
her figure. She waved at Rooster, smiling, talking to the baby.”
p.99-----“He
turned out the light and saw her silhouetted against the faint light from the
balcony window, saw her open the verticals to let the moonlight shine in. When
she pulled the tee shirt off up over her head he caught his breath, overwhelmed
by her reckless nudity. She came and lay down and he touched her nakedness,
felt the electricity surge through his body. His hand ran down her back to the
curve of her buttock and he felt the weight of her, this fine full woman, and
her lips were on his and wet, a delicious mouth ripe with need. He kissed her
mouth and neck and breasts, he heard her heart pound like his, her breathing
deep like his as the y rolled, and he could not touch, could not taste enough
of her.”
Paula is
the grown daughter of a woman Rooster had married knowing she was dying of
cancer and had no one to help her. Away at Grad School during that brief
marriage, Paula only met Rooster at the end of her mother’s life. Rooster and
Paula immediately hit it off, though not in a romantic way. In a trusting way:
Paula’s father had molested her when she was younger and she did not trust many
men at all. But when Paula’s handsome playboy husband Robbie ran off with his
secretary, Paula headed to Miami to stay with Rooster and get some sensitive
love and loving.
