Saturday, February 25, 2012

Sweet Saturday



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            Here at Sweet Saturday Samples, I've got another scene from Aegean Intrigue. Here, the group is setting up for their archaeological dig, and Francie makes observations about some of the crew:

After the screens were assembled, Dimitri went to the food tent to prepare dinner. Soon, the scent of beef, onions, and tomatoes spiced with cumin, cinnamon, and garlic filled the air. Dimitri was evidently preparing stifado, a traditional Greek stew. Francie's stomach growled, and she remembered she hadn't eaten all day. She had been too excited about the trip to eat that morning, and lack of funds had prevented her from buying food on the ferry.
When Alex called a halt to the day's work, she was more than ready to eat. The dig site was set up, and they would be ready to begin work in earnest the next day.
Before heading to the dining cabin, the crew cleaned up. Tools were wiped off and put away. Francie noted that Yannis, again, stood off to the side, his ever-present Blackberry his only concern. She frowned.
“Something wrong?”
The man seems to be everywhere. She nodded toward the preoccupied crew member. “Yannis spends a lot of time on that Blackberry. For a graduate archaeology student, he doesn'ʹt seem to know what he's doing. And he doesn't seem willing to pull his weight in the work and cleanup.”
“Perhaps he's preoccupied with a girlfriend he left behind. But you'ʹre right. He should be helping. I'll talk to him.” Alex loped over to the other man, his long legs covering the distance in no time.
Francie scolded herself for noticing the man's legs and turned her attention back to her own work. She cleaned off her trowel, wrapped it carefully, and stowed it in her backpack. Focus, she reminded herself.
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12 comments:

  1. Great Post Patty! Your book is definitely on my TBR list!

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  2. Why do I get the feeling Yannis is not what he appears to be? This is intriguing and I look forward to your post each week, Patty.

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  3. Gotta love great legs! Great scene Patrica!

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  4. LOL! Always fun to read your samples, Patricia! I'd be looking at his legs too :)

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  5. Nice scene and I liked the details of the camp site. Great excerpt

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  6. I've got a bad feeling about Yannis, which I'm pretty sure is just what you intended! I liked that Patricia looked at his legs too. That made her more human. Good scene.

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  7. I'm with Sandy on not being to sure about Yannis. He seems like trouble like the man on the hill last week.

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  8. Add another vote for a bad feeling about Yannis! And I LOVE how she notices Alex's legs. *grin*

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  9. Hmmm...I'm sharing everyone's concerns over Yannis, and wondering what he's up to. Great sample, Patricia, and I like her attachment to the trowel. :-) Looking forward to more next week!

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  10. And another one moves onto my TBR Kindle stack. This one has me intrigued, pun intended. Nice, clean prose, Patricia.

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  11. I like the scene you created, and the introduction of the mysterious Yannis.

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