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Both humorous and shocking, this memoir tells the story of a 16-year-old model trying to make it during the 1980s, when the supermodel phenomenon reached a hysterical peak. She is one of the hundreds of B models, those boys and girls who craved a lifestyle of success and glamor, but in the meantime walked the streets in uncomfortable shoes, underdressed and hungry for work, love, and a decent meal.
A black comedy, set in suburbia, about one woman’s struggle to be free. When Winona Dalloway begins her day — in the peaceful early hours before her children, that ‘tiny tornado of little hands and feet’, wake up — she doesn’t know that by the end of it, everything in her world will have changed. On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive, quietly going about her tasks. But within is a vivid, chaotic self, teeming with voices — a mind both wild and precise. And meanwhile, a storm is brewing …
From a masked ball in Venice, to the oilfields of Azerbaijan, and the bullrings of Spain, Stevie Duveen, Risk Assessor for Hazard Ltd, has been offered an assignment she can't refuse ... Death wears a vintage Pucci kaftan as our stylish, shadowy and dangerous agent comes face to face with modern piracy in a bid to stay one step ahead of some of ...
If James Bond had a slightly eccentric younger sister; if Eloise had outgrown the Plaza and joined a kidnap and ransom outfit; if Carrie Bradshaw had trained as a secret service agent, they might have been like the fearless Stevie Duveen. Tiny as a bird but sharp as an ice pick, Stevie flits between megawatt celebrities, Russian assassins, and tea times with her indomitable grandmother Didi. As Hazard's unlikeliest risk assessor, Stevie travels to Moscow in the heart of winter on the most unusual of assignments. The young daughter of the Head of the Russian Central Bank, Anya Kozkov, has been kidnapped and no one is above suspicion. Stevie is finds herself on a wild quest to get her back alive. Armed with her quick wit and a string of pearls, she stalks strippers in Moscow nightclubs, dodges police at the ice polo in St. Moritz, and infiltrates a sanatorium deep in the Swiss Alps. Determined to find the missing girl against all odds, Stevie's hunt soon becomes a battle of wits against some of Russia's most dangerous and powerful men.
Forkbraid is the Earth’s most powerful psychic and leads the psychic remote viewing teams that maintain peace on Earth. A bomb explodes in a Psychic Academy, a place which aught to have been safe from any strife. Forkbraid reveals that the crime was planned in the one place that remote viewing teams can not scan. Off world! Few psychics on Earth can use their gifts off world. Forkbraid leaves the Earth to track down the terrorists amongst the myriad colonies of solar system. For the price of freedom is constant vigilance, what now the price of peace?
From New York Times bestselling author Courtney Milan... Smite Turner is renowned for his single-minded devotion to his duty as a magistrate. But behind his relentless focus lies not only a determination to do what is right, but the haunting secrets of his past--secrets that he is determined to hide, even if it means keeping everyone else at arm's length. Until the day an irresistible woman shows up as a witness in his courtroom... Miranda Darling isn't in trouble...yet. But she's close enough that when Turner threatens her with imprisonment if she puts one foot wrong, she knows she should run in the other direction. And yet no matter how forbidding the man seems on the outside, she can't bring herself to leave. Instead, when he tries to push her away, she pushes right back--straight through his famous self-control and into the heart of the passion that he has long hidden away... Unraveled is a full length novel at 95,000 words.
Childhood Musings is a compilation of all of the stories, poems, and screenplays that I have written in my lifetime. It is a project that made me realize that I have stayed pretty creative throughout my life.
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The following is a fictional legend based on the lives of well known members of society. They were not at all involved in the writing of this script, and had no creative input whatsoever. The scenes described are not, nor have they ever been real, according to the date of the scripts completion. Their inclusion in this story is strictly for creative reasons and in no way a portrayal of the nature of they who are included. All ideas are from the author, and the involvement of well known persons is solely circumstantial and for the sake of entertaining an audience.
After a boating accident off Whym Island, South Carolina, takes the lives of four friends and injures three others, 17-year-old Miranda meets Christian, a sort of merman who saves her life and is then charged by a sea witch to kill her.