This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. “So I’m not making friends here, I don’t think, in either category.”īefore becoming a full-fledged member of S.E.C.R.E.T., Cassie must complete 10 steps: surrender, courage, trust, generosity, fearlessness, confidence, curiosity, bravery, exuberance and what’s called “the choice.” Gabriele, it seems, went through a similar process while writing the novel last year: first she had to surrender to the idea of writing erotica, then find the courage to ignore “that internal critic says you can’t write this stuff, that they’ll laugh at you.” And just like her narrator, Gabriele feels it was a transformative experience. “I’m entering treacherous territory, because the masters in this genre are going to sneer at it, and the literary fiction people are going to roll their eyes at it,” says Gabriele, 45, sitting in her publisher’s boardroom earlier this week. When she discovers an explicit diary left behind by one of her regular customers, Cassie is drawn into the world of S.E.C.R.E.T., an invite-only club with a mission to transform shrinking violets into blooming roses. She spends her time waiting tables and avoiding relationships, her cat being the one exception. James’s BDSM-infused trilogy, the novel is about a woman discovering her sexuality after a lifetime of bad sex and hard luck.Ĭassie Robichaud is a 35-year-old widow working at Café Rose, a neighbourhood diner that’s seen better days.
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