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Ever Your Servant or How Retail Really Sucks

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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.