Post by Piken Sander on May 19, 2016 20:10:56 GMT -5
In the first book in the Life, Liberty Quadrilogy:
Twenty-eight-year-old Jenna Paulsen calmly relates and offers evidence to new therapist Dr. Elizabeth Lannon that months ago she’d been unjustly committed to the institution by her selfish siblings who were after her modest inheritance. With the doctor’s help Jenna gains release and a restraining order from her siblings. Jenna continues her supportive friendship with fellow inmate, actress Berry Harmon, who is in the brain rehab unit after a terrible car accident. Upon reading about an interesting character in a book at the hospital Jenna changes her name, and, with Berry’s help, her entire appearance. She walks out of the court hearing no longer employed as a beleaguered nonprofit’s fundraiser, homeless and broke, but free, as Sanapia Jones, although almost everyone mispronounces the name as “Snappia” at first. In the courthouse hall Sanapia is greeted by friend Berry, who takes her to Beverly Hills to housesit Hollywood mega-producer/director Jason Everladd’s mansion while he’s away on location for several months.
Dozens of the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry Berry had contacted contribute to a trust fund for Sanapia to compensate for her losses. Stunned at their generosity and the several dozen who turn out to meet her that first night when Berry takes her out to dinner, there’s an instant connection with actor/director Marc Brand, her handsome neighbor, a friend of Berry’s. Beginning with lunch the next day the pair are inseparable. Marc sees the anguish deep inside her when she tells him the full story and he feels very protective. Despite their intense attraction, he won’t make love with her until he knows she’s past her pain.
She’s thrust into their professional world when helping Berry’s retrograde amnesia by running lines of her script. The film producers and Marc are impressed with the chemistry between the girls. Sana finds herself cast in a TV show Marc is directing, and then as sidekick to Berry’s character in a movie. Sana is a genuine overnight sensation, largely due to her ‘photographic’ memory and snappy wit, and with the loving support of her new friends and new love.
Twenty-eight-year-old Jenna Paulsen calmly relates and offers evidence to new therapist Dr. Elizabeth Lannon that months ago she’d been unjustly committed to the institution by her selfish siblings who were after her modest inheritance. With the doctor’s help Jenna gains release and a restraining order from her siblings. Jenna continues her supportive friendship with fellow inmate, actress Berry Harmon, who is in the brain rehab unit after a terrible car accident. Upon reading about an interesting character in a book at the hospital Jenna changes her name, and, with Berry’s help, her entire appearance. She walks out of the court hearing no longer employed as a beleaguered nonprofit’s fundraiser, homeless and broke, but free, as Sanapia Jones, although almost everyone mispronounces the name as “Snappia” at first. In the courthouse hall Sanapia is greeted by friend Berry, who takes her to Beverly Hills to housesit Hollywood mega-producer/director Jason Everladd’s mansion while he’s away on location for several months.
Dozens of the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry Berry had contacted contribute to a trust fund for Sanapia to compensate for her losses. Stunned at their generosity and the several dozen who turn out to meet her that first night when Berry takes her out to dinner, there’s an instant connection with actor/director Marc Brand, her handsome neighbor, a friend of Berry’s. Beginning with lunch the next day the pair are inseparable. Marc sees the anguish deep inside her when she tells him the full story and he feels very protective. Despite their intense attraction, he won’t make love with her until he knows she’s past her pain.
She’s thrust into their professional world when helping Berry’s retrograde amnesia by running lines of her script. The film producers and Marc are impressed with the chemistry between the girls. Sana finds herself cast in a TV show Marc is directing, and then as sidekick to Berry’s character in a movie. Sana is a genuine overnight sensation, largely due to her ‘photographic’ memory and snappy wit, and with the loving support of her new friends and new love.