Roslyn Carrington's Literary Novels
Here are some quick overviews of my literary novels, written under my real name, Roslyn Carrington. You can click through to fresh new excerpts.
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Myra's
earthy beauty draws men to her little lunch counter on a busy corner in Port of
Spain; her cooking makes them stay. All she wants is to take care of her
equally beautiful, equally willful daughter, Odile, and
her Alzheimer's-struck father, Sebastian. And now she's pregnant for her
worthless lover, Slim, a ganja-smoking street peddler. How can she handle
another mouth to feed? Then she discovers that 17-year-old Odile, with all
her academic brilliance, her athletic ability, and her shining promise of a
better life, is pregnant, too.
Then there's Rory, the manchild who shares the barrack-yard in
which she grew up. He only wants two things: first, to earn the attention,
and maybe the affection, of his adored Odile, and, second, for his father to
stop hitting him.
Finally, there's Jacob, the crippled but still virile ex-stickfighter from the forest, who only wants to take care of them all.
The sequel to A Thirst For Rain. It's been years since Odile has left Myra's home, her plans for her education and a better chance at life fallen by the wayside after her pregnancy and its disastrous consequences. When Rory finds her once again, she is waitressing - and, hopefully, that's all - in a filthy Port of Spain brothel, and living with Vincent, the grandson of the establishment's cantankerous, domineering Chinese war refugee, Miss Ling.
Rory's a man, now, a giant one, but his thoughts are still all for Odile. How can he reach out to her once again, his old friend and one-time lover, after all that has happened between them? How can he convince her to forgive him for what happened on the last night they were together, out by the river, in the slashing, blinding, unkind rain?
