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rank 5877
word count 14605
date submitted 15.02.2010
date updated 03.01.2012
genres: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
classification: adult
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Cigar Queen

Mercedes A. Villamán

A beautiful woman in a man's world has to fight against prejudice, lust, jealousy, sabotage, and voodoo to save her life and her business.

 

"That's a nice piece of cake. A Dominican York cake." Without missing a beat on the conversation with his friends, Randolph de la Vega’s eyes were following Lucrecia’s sensuous ass since she made her entrance to the restaurant. Before she gets to her table he had already decided she will share his bed that night.


When New York city raised Lucrecia Herrera returns to her country to produce her own cigar brand, she is not ready for the land mined of prejudice and betrayal waiting for her in the Dominican Republic, including the handsome cigar maker Randolph de la Vega. Lucrecia is not the kind of woman that mixes business with romance and Randolph is too proud to admit that he needs Lucrecia’s business as much as he desires to bed her. Driven by a blinding lust, he neglects his mistress Isabel who turns to her favorite weapon, voodoo, to destroy his passion and to kill Lucrecia.

 
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dominican, literary fiction, multi cultural, romance, spanish writer, women

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Andi Brown wrote 528 days ago

hi,,
I think you may have an interesting story here. i'm guessing English isn't your first language, as I found several awkward word choices, and mistakes in tense. You may want to consider an editor to help you.

I'm a believer in the writer's maxim "Show, don't tell." and I found a fair amount of telling. For example, instead of 'it was a charming place.the room was decorated with good taste.." why not something like "The hotel, stucco with a red tiled roof, boasted gardens of bougainvillea, and overlooked the ocean below, like some Riviera villa I once saw in a French movie. Landscape paintings, presumably by local artists, hung above the bamboo-framed bed.: Ditto with the androynous voice; let us hear it.

Good luck with your work.
Andi

MAVillaman wrote 532 days ago

Please, take a look at my novel CIGAR QUEEN. This is an advance. I am correcting a second draft and will be posting as I complete each chapter. Thank you.

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