Chapter 10: Christopher Sunday
June 7. I was putting the final formatting touches to a hundred and ninety-six-page novella called Rotunda, a bitter and tragic love story between two men by a French author named Jacques Versailles. A printing lot of three hundred copies was to be processed the following week. Each copy was to be signed and numbered by the writer. The pages were gold-gilded and the leather was imported from Europe. The end product, like the other TBP titles that had paid my bills, was going to be fabulous. Each copy would sell at $175.00. And the author would do a private reading following the tome’s release date in the middle of September. Again, TBP was to create a rare masterpiece and increase my bank account.
Vivian entered my office at approximately noontime. She spor
