Ever Your Servant or How Retail Really Sucks [Paperback]

K.A. Corlett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 2011

Imagine Anne Rice being trampled by the cast of Are You Being Served... Joelle Lachance works with the terminally banal. That is, she runs the Health Food Shop at Weathersons Department Store. Patriarchy, incompetence, lowbrow politcis? All in a day's work--until Maximillen Lambert darkens her door. Max is tall, pale, and colder than burial ground in January. He owns Weatherston's new Cyber Cafe, but he's far more interested in Joelle than he is in hard drives. When Joelle starts having nightmares, she's sure Max has something to do with it. Hardware Manager Geraint McKellar is suspicious, too: why is Max offering meditation lessons to Weatherstons staff? After all, the guy's more like the Grim Reaper's better-dressed brother than Mahatma Gandhi...

Product Details

• Paperback: 306 pages
• Publisher: Coachlight Press (August 12, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936785072
• ISBN-13: 978-1936785070
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

K.A. CORLETT is a writer of novels, short stories, and poetry who lurks about the nether regions of Southwestern Ontario. Her checkered past includes many years of self-inflicted torture as a retail employee and officious bureaucrat. Perversely, her matron muse is the Hindu goddess Kali Ma, whose maxim is, "dance on your lover's chest and carry a large scimitar."

K.A. walks a thin line between this and the Otherworld, and can often be seen wandering off into the mist somewhere. Should you care to conjure her, you may enter her web site at www.kacorlett.com and try your luck.

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5.0 out of 5 stars And Retail Does Suck, but not always like this, December 19, 2011

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Juliet Waldron ""Mozart's Wife"" (PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ever Your Servant or How Retail Really Sucks (Paperback)

If I may rephrase the cover blurb: "Imagine Anne Rice being trampled by the cast of The Office." If tired formula vampire stories send you to sleep, here comes a wake up call!

In the '90's, Joelle works for a department store in a sizeable Canadian city. There, she runs a one-off attempt at a trendy health-food section. The bosses are what you'd imagine, obsessed with inane home-office protocol and back-stabbing and confused about anything new. Joelle's best friends are the slacker geeks who run the electronics area, although she has a work ethic they lack.

Ms. Corlett has a gift for smart dialogue, and an ear finely tuned toward 9-5 dementia, and you will be splitting your sides when a tall dark stranger arrives to cast an even deeper miasma over the scene. Max owns another new enterprise, the newly installed cyber café, which is independent from the powers that be. At once, he begins to wreck havoc, not only upon the one remaining good nerve of the managerial staff, but upon Joelle, who has never before met a man she couldn't joke into submission.

Max is handsome, ferociously bright and polished. He may be a good deal older than he appears. Soon, Joelle is seriously entangled. Max is also unnaturally pale, and has some strange habits, like hanging upside down from the ceiling in his darkened office. Fellow workers begin to die, and even though Joelle guesses who is to blame, she can't kick a growing passion for the urbane, mysterious Max. "Ever Your Servant" is by turns funny, witty, terrifying and sexy. What's more, there's a wealth of occult knowledge threaded through the office humor and gothic romance. If you're looking for a vampire tale with an adult bite, try this.