About The Passions of Pearl

Can you hold a dream within a cup?

What about seven dreams in seven cups, one for each of the miners at the Bighorn rooming
house, where pretty young Pearl works as a housemaid and cook?

I started with the Tarot card -- seven cups depicting vividly imaginative images -- and a
figure regarding the cups, trying to make a decision. The card is sometimes interpreted as a
choice between dreams and reality, so I decided this would be a book about dreams. Each
of the seven cups represents a person and a particular taste for sexual pleasure. With the
last episodes of the HBO series Deadwood still fresh in my memory, I decided to set the
story in a mining town just before the turn of the century. My heroine Pearl would be the
dreamer.

The hero - a young man named Justin - is a private detective in Denver out to solve a
mystery over twenty years old and is consumed by urgent desires of his own. His path
crosses Pearl's at a crucial moment when she is suspended between dreams and reality.

I know this all sounds deadly serious, but trust me it's not very serious at all! This story is
a comical, hard-boiled fairy tale with plenty of good sex, romance, and laughs. It's a fun
story I don't think you will soon forget.

Come on. Let me fill your cup…