Violets Are Blue (1999)
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Sonia Icilyn's romance was published by Arabesque, BET Books' imprint, in 1999. In London, Arlisa Davenport, who works on the Nubian Chronicle, the paper her father publishes, is waiting at a West End salsa club for the fashion entrepreneur Earl Vani when her old flame Brad Belleville steps in; when her sister Kendra cannot be found, the two are drawn together through the days before the Notting Hill Carnival. (Open Library)
Watches
- Rolex watch
- Arlisa's Rolex was a present from her brother-in-law for her twenty-sixth birthday; she glances at it at the salsa club while an intrusive stranger presses her for conversation (p. 10). She wears it twenty-four seven, the text says, and checks it on waking (p. 135), at 5:45 (p. 191), at a quarter to ten (p. 206), and at a quarter past three in the Notting Hill Carnival crowd (p. 225). The maker is named; the model is not.
Source text: glancing at her Rolex, a birthday present from her brother-in-law to commemorate her twenty-sixth birthday. […] She glanced at her Rolex, which read 5:45. (Sonia Icilyn, Violets Are Blue, scan cataloged as Arabesque (BET Books), 1999, pp. 10, 191; Internet Archive scan OCR)