Delta
October 2006
On Sale: September 26, 2006
Featuring: Chance Wood; Emma Smith
368 pages ISBN: 0385340311 EAN: 9780385340311 Trade Size Add to Wish List
A literary novel with suspense and erotic undertones that
opens on New Year's Eve 1898. Emma Smith has just informed
the reader that "For seventeen years I was a good - some
might say exemplary - wife. It is important that you know
this about me from the start." That night, she resolves
to, during the course of the next year, become "a better
person." Her husband John, a writer, suggests that she do
so by striking up a correspondence with a convicted
murderer who he thinks does not deserve to be in prison
for his crime. The prisoner, Chance Wood, initially wants
nothing to do with Emma, but then his letters become more
heated and Emma learns that the real definition of vertigo
is not the fear of falling, but the fear of wanting to
fall. As the following New Year's approaches, and the
world gets ready for 1900, Queen Victoria announces - at
the suggestion of an advisor who states that this will
make her look more progressive - that she will free
certain prisoners that do not pose a real threat to
society and who can get an upstanding citizen to petition
for them. But by the time Chance is freed, Emma finds that
she is in a prison of her own making. Unable or unwilling
to merely turn away from the only world she has ever known
in order to achieve what she wants, she becomes convinced
that if she is to ever have her Chance, then her husband
must die.
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