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An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication

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Eight Days Ablaze

ISBN 9781419918520

Edited by Briana St. James.

Cover art by Syneca.

Electronic book Publication December 2008

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E IGHT D AYS A BLAZE

Angelia Sparrow

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Eight Days Ablaze

Chapter One

2045

Adina barJonas loved Hanukkah. December was nothing but cold weather, ice

storms and chilly rain, but she loved the holidays with the lights, presents and comfort

food. She didn’t even mind that Christmas dominated the stores. Any holiday in any

religion was just an excuse to see family, overeat and spend too much.

The UPS box she balanced on her hip as she opened the apartment door only

emphasized the last point. She set her briefcase down—the Linzer inheritance case

could wait a while—and placed the box on the teak coffee table while she

decompressed from work.

She brushed aside the beaded curtain that separated her bedroom from the rest of

the apartment. She’d done the place in the style of an opium den or vintage hippie pad

from the middle twentieth century, full of gold-tassled red velvet furniture and floor

cushions around low tables. Candles and incense burners filled the apartment with

fragrant smoke when it suited her. There were no black-light posters. They didn’t fit the

more upscale image she projected as a junior partner in Brinkley, Samudrala, Wallace

and Nguyen.

Adina moved slowly, drawing out the anticipation. She stepped out of her heels

and hung them in their place on the shoe rack before peeling off the silk stockings and

rinsing them. She itched to open the box.

“Delayed gratification is the hallmark of a mature personality,” she heard her father

say in her head. She continued her evening ritual, trying very hard to be mature.

Her dark designer suit and silk blouse went into the closet, replaced by soft cotton.

The current Indian fashion made the yoke of the tunic sparkle with beads and little

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