Prologue Rachel Bilson is a 29 year old actress, best known for her role as 'Summer' in the hit show 'The O.C.'. The adorable brunette is not a well-known name around Hollywood, only landing notable roles in 'The Last Kiss' and 'Jumper'. While filming 'Jumper', she met and fell in love with her co-star Hayden Christensen and has spent over three years with...
Like many stories that I write, there is an element of truth in every one, so there is in this one. I'll let you speculate on what about this story is absolutely true. Do you believe that "love at first sight" can really happen, or is that just something that happens in romance novels? I mean, does that really happen in real life. Well, I can speak for mys...
The sun rose over the City of Calgary, Alberta, and as usual, Hakim Winston rose with it. Shooting a disgusted look at the body lying next to his, he left his bed, and went to the nearby washroom. Looking in the mirror, he grimaced as he saw what looked back at him. A six-foot-tall, brawny and muscular young man with light brown skin, curly hair and lime-gre...
It was Monday evening and Jilly was even livelier than usual, giggling like a school girl on the other end of the line as she tried to relate the past few months of her life to me. It had been a long time since we'd spoke and I was looking forward to seeing her again. I brushed my blonde hair across one shoulder and shifted the phone uncomfortably against...
ONE When Alec Tiplady went into mourning after his wife of 23 years left him for a newer model, departing after her divorce for a new life in a new country, his two daughters Nina and Dolly worried him greatly. They worried him so much he was unable to work through his grief comfortably. It puzzled Alec why his two daughters were unable to resist filling...
Otis walked and Ariel's house and just stared. It was all he could do. There was so many beautiful things in the house that he could almost believe he was in a museum. He heard her talking, and followed the sound of her voice to what he thought was a kitchen, but may have been a small restaurant instead. About the time where he could get close enough to hear...
Chapter 23: Appearances The landscape quickly began to change as Cyrus rocketed across the ground, a dust cloud rising up behind him. As he neared his destination, he began to slow down to a walk, taking time to catch his breath the last hundred meters or so. Quietly he began walking along the path that led to his father's home, pausing a short distance awa...
Jeff Murphy's proposition presented me with a quandary of the highest degree. Option one was leave The Morrison Group and return to Artists Unlimited, in a much more controlling position than I ever could've imagined. And with Jeff Murphy effectively revive a company that to the outside world, that is the entertainment world, appeared to be dead and buried...
The first Thursday of every month for the past two years, you and I have gotten together for wine and chess, alternating between your place, mine, and the chess club where we met. Tonite it is your turn to play host and when I arrive, there is a note on your door: "See me inside." As always, I enjoy the word-play. I am so easily delighted by everything from...
CHAPTER 1 Jake Barrow was the new man at Marble City Fund, a mutual fund management company in Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite its odd location, the relatively small firm had been in business for more than 100 years and carried on profitably through economic booms and busts. The firm hired Jake in 2014, as a new fund manager. The company only had 4 managers...