Book excerpt: Rosemarie Ganza sells the book rights of her best selling novel to Hollywood Productions with the understanding that she will assist in the production of the movie. Ecstatically, and yet unbeknownst to her, she prepares to embark on what is to be the most fascinating, fast-moving, highly charged, albeit painful journey of her entire lifetime which causes her considerable self-doubt, fear, mental anguish, and grief. Her life will never be the same again. She sets out believing she will see fi rsthand the glitz and glamour of Hollywood’s fi nest. However, from the time she arrives in the movie kingdom, she begins to see the dark side of Hollywood—a world of power-hungry, vain, excessively wealthy, extravagant, deceitful, and raunchy characters. She gradually gains their respect but not before she successfully tackles the aggressiveness of a very egotistical, astute, arrogant, and manipulative producer. Shock waves resound throughout Hollywood when the producer shockingly suffers a massive heart attack due to the disgrace and embarrassment he and his family experience upon the public revelation of his very squalid and sordid past. Rosemarie falls passionately in love with his aristocratic and world-famous cardiologist. Her unexpected return to the East Coast abruptly ends her Hollywood career and is followed by the tragic loss of this extraordinary individual in an automobile accident. The shame and humiliation of an unplanned pregnancy and the knowledge that this magnifi cent person died without ever knowing he fathered a child shatters her emotional stability. Throughout this book, Rosemarie is not only perpetually challenged mentally and physically but also faces a multitude of highly traumatic situations unlike anything she has previously encountered. This novel deals with desperation, distrust, disloyalty, tragedy, rejection, passion, romance, love, hate, and suicide.