{"product_id":"enemy-queen-a-novel-9781684630264","title":"Enemy Queen: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Stanley Berman, a Jewish New York attorney, is appointed Chief Counsel at a North Carolina University, he opts to share a house with his good friend, Thomas McClellan, a professor in the school’s English Department. The men spend their evenings drinking wine, playing chess, and lamenting their ineptitude with women. Then the Professor, a Southern good old boy, former high school football lineman, and avid hunter, hatches a scheme to bring a young woman into the house, insisting that as a creative writing teacher, such women find him alluringly subversive and artistic. The Counselor is dubious but persuaded nonetheless—much to his detriment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         The articulate but bumbling Counselor and Professor find themselves outwitted at every turn by Victoria, a young woman who is clever, inscrutable, and superb at finishing what she starts. She initiates passionate sexual encounters with the men, but as time goes on, what she demands in return becomes untenable. When she goes missing, John Watson, the county sheriff—and the Professor’s lifelong friend—feels compelled to open a murder investigation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        Full of wicked humor, artful eroticism, scintillating dialogue, and a bit of intrigue, \u003cem\u003eEnemy Queen\u003c\/em\u003e is an exhilarating romp set in a North Carolina college town.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Each paragraph of the story is as unpredictably peculiar as the next—the plot is a tantalizingly original puzzle, dramatically gripping, erotically electric, and satisfyingly weird. A hilarious dark comedy that explores the nature of friendship through the lens of sexual licentiousness.”  —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"SparkPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53189649105239,"sku":"9781684630264","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/enemy-queen-a-novel-9781684630264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}