What Happens At The Speakeasy Stays At The Speakeasy E-Book

Yolanda King

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 20

Beschreibung

Stephanie and Belladonna, two outstanding researchers, invent a pheromone trap that potentially kills killer hornets without endangering other species. Now they have to find a way to market it successfully. When they don't discover groundbreaking inventions they attend speakeasies. They come for the music, for dressing up in 1920s and 1930s attire, and to enjoy the occasional casual sexual encounter. Will tonight's strip poker game also leave them satisfied or will it destroy their careers?

Leseprobe

What Happens At The Speakeasy Stays At The Speakeasy

PrefaceWhat Happens At The Speakeasy Stays At The SpeakeasyCopyright

Preface

As you probably know by now, I place women in a powerful position in my stories. Women who know what they want, who are strong and intelligent and who aren't ashamed of their sexual appetites.

It's also important to me to portray the men they interact with appreciative of these powerful and strong-minded women – the way it also should be in real life!

If I had been born during the time of speakeasies, I'm certain I'd have frequented them.

They broke the law and aided a parallel society, they ascertained that people could still enjoy their lives, albeit in secret – which was part of the allure, I guess.

Glamorous, forbidden, off color, the perfect setting for my story.

Regarding the invasion of killer hornets, that's an actual fact. It's also a fact that they're devastating for native bee populations and that environmentalists try to track killer hornets down by attaching sensors to them when given the chance.

The GM spray as well as the pheromone are pure fiction – or they were at the time I wrote the short story and published it.

I'm extremely critical toward anything GM related as I firmly believe that as soon as you meddle the way those companies do, it'll only harm and upset the natural balance of things.

I am absolutely convinced, however, that many politicians own shares in the GM industry and would do anything in their might to stop an invention like the one described in my story for fear of losing money.

Greed is usually – sadly – victorious.

Rest assured, though, that my story has a happy ending!

What Happens At The Speakeasy Stays At The Speakeasy

„Alright, so what's our next move?“ Stephanie asked Belladonna, her best friend and fellow chemist.

They were lab partners in a small but very prestigious private company. Both of them joined the same year only a few months apart. Their career paths had been quite similar in that they had both worked for large labs across Europe and North America before deciding to try their luck with a private one.

Stephanie was in her early fifties, divorced, her three children were grown up and scattered around the world. Her former husband had been unhappy with her career choices and at some point Stephanie had been so unhappy with his attitude that she divorced him. She had not been in a serious relationship since.