Fleur De Leigh In Exile
A Novel
Chapter One
The Invalid Invalids
A Rorschach of teardrops stained the lap of my dress. Weary of my sob story, I
peered out the window of the bruised station wagon in which I was riding. If
there had been a town, I'd missed it. A dusty, sun-seared landscape appeared
before me wherein grimy beer cans, french-fry wrappers, crumpled paper cups and
straws had been impaled on the spines of innumerable saguaro cacti. From the
fleeting vehicle, it seemed to me, I was looking at a petrified forest of shish
kebabs.
My parents, Charmian and Maurice Leigh, who considered cactus so hideous they
wanted the entire phylum banned from Beverly Hills, were responsible for
slapping me down in this alien collage.
"Think of yourself as a...conquistador," Charmian had suggested on the way ... read full excerpt from Fleur de Leigh in Exile: A Novel ebook
