The Boyfriend from Hell
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Veronica Delaney didn’t intend to fall for another bad guy, especially not one who just might be evil incarnate . . .
Veronica Delaney is a bright and beautiful, young New York journalist who has had hard luck romantically and professionally. Her latest boyfriend left her for fame (and another woman, of course), and her latest assignment has her covering a bizarre satanic cult. But while following the story, Veronica soon meets the charming, polite, and devilishly handsome occult historian Richard Smith. Soon she’s embroiled in an exciting affair—at least until strange relics begin to appear on her doorstep and things start to go terribly wrong. The Boyfriend from Hell is a funny, astute psychological thriller about the mysteries of attraction and love’s power to hijack our good sense. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Avery Corman including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This occult thriller from the author of Kramer vs. Kramer begins as a tidy, well-paced tale of New York City dating life. Veronica "Ronnie" Delaney, a beautiful 24-year-old freelance journalist, has just lost her chef boyfriend to a cabaret singer's charms and the semi-stardom of a cable show. On the professional front, Ronnie gets an assignment to investigate the Dark Angel Church, a local satanic cult. The handsome, creepy cult leader, Randall Cummings, seems like perfect inappropriate boyfriend material, but Ronnie passes him over, and she meets the gorgeous Richard Smith, author of a history of Satanism and just too good to be true. Soon, she finds herself implicated in a murder, begins to lose her cool and leads the novel through a rapid series of unconvincing events that bring the story to a predictable close. The author is excellent with small details of setting and of personality, though the section set in an apparently pre-Katrina New Orleans is oddly anachronistic.
