A nostalgic look at a high school summer romance from the point of view of an abused young man, whose upbringing prevents him from expressing his true feelings to the young girl he loves with all his heart. A painful, touching story of what happens to us when all we know is abuse and neglect.

From the author of the year’s most controversial novel, The Affair: A Four Week Experiment in Love, comes a Hollywood novel unlike any you have ever read. Even Jackie Collins wouldn’t have dared to tell this story.

Four short blocks in the middle of the Beverly Hills business district comprise Rodeo Drive, “the Most Famous Shopping Street in the World.” Here, it is possible to buy almost anything the mind can conjure–one-hundred-thousand-dollar dresses, two-hundred-thousand-dollar gold and diamond-encrusted watches, million-dollar vacations to every corner of the globe.

Charlotte Engle finds herself on the wrong end of a pistol when her coach is stopped by notorious highwaymen, the Black Trio. Although Charlotte survives the encounter none the worse for wear, her mother, Lady Epping, decides Charlotte is in need of a husband to protect her.

I am Marissa Cegan.