Starlight Volume 1
Product Description October 1952 finds eighteen-year-old Marie Bates relocating from her rainy hometown in the Pacific Northwest to the sun-soaked streets of Los Angeles, California. Marie's plans for a teaching career take an unexpected turn when she's asked to film a screen test at Starlight Motion Picture Studios.Renamed Elizabeth Sutton by the studio heads, she lands her first role as an extra. On set, Beth spies Aidan Evans, a rebellious, twenty-three-year-old Method actor from New York. Aidan is branded as a stuck-up troublemaker by his famous Hollywood peers, but Beth suspects a tragic secret lurks behind his steely facade. As their careers hit the fast track and friendship evolves into romance, the expectations of Hollywood stardom threaten to shine a spotlight on Aidan's dark past before he can make peace with it. Beth must help Aidan confront the painful event that shattered his life and conquer a terrifying truth before it destroys him and their future together. Five Reasons To Read The Starlight Trilogy:1. A sweeping technicolor tale of forbidden romance.2. A detailed homage to the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.3. Cameos from many of your favorite classic film stars.4. Transformation of a small town girl to silver screen starlet through Hollywood’s unforgiving lens.5. Close-up of a 1950s bad boy channeling a tragic past and the stress of sudden super stardom through the art of Method acting. Review Five Reasons To Read Starlight:1. A sweeping technicolor tale of forbidden romance.2. A detailed homage to the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.3. Cameos from many of your favorite classic film stars.4. Transformation of a small town girl to silver screen starlet through Hollywood's unforgiving lens.5. Close-up of a 1950s bad boy channeling a tragic past and the stress of sudden super stardom through the art of Method acting About the Author Alexandra Richland spends rotating twelve-hour shifts working as a registered nurse at a Toronto hospital, indulging in her love of science and medicine, and caring for patients with their own unique tales to tell. When she is not on duty, Alexandra escapes into her own imagination. Therein lies a fantasy world of thrilling adventure, gorgeous men, classic Hollywood glamour, exotic getaways, and a seductive dose of romance. Alexandra captures these stories in her popular novels, The Starlight Trilogy and Frontline, and her short story, Gilded Cage. Say hello to her on Facebook (facebook.com/Ms.AlexandraRichland) and on Twitter (@RebelMissAlex).