Böcker av Pamela Cory

In this second book of the Hassie Calhoun trilogy, the now twenty-nine-year-old single mother moves from Nevada to New York City to pursue her career as a singer. Though she enjoys a degree of success, she cannot adequately care for her son and so agrees to marry a handsome gay lawyer, who is delighted to have a family. While attending the funeral of her childhood mentor in England, she falls in love with a charming Royal Navy officer, finds greater career success in London's West End and spends four years traveling between London and NYC, in an attempt to avoid hurting the ones she loves. Set during 1970s and 80s, this paging-turning epic spans the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, and the Falklands War.

Lovely and talented Hassie Calhoun arrives in Las Vegas to make it as a singer. Her beauty immediately opens doors at the Sands Hotel, but that same beauty draws her into a dangerous relationship with her brooding lover, Jake, and attracts the attention of the powerful Frank Sinatra. Like the goddess Persephone, Hassie finds herself torn between the darkness and the light the two men offer. Jake is her personal Hades, whose love borders on obsession, and Hassie's innocence keeps her from recognizing the dangers that she invites. With her innocence and identity on the line, the road to stardom puts Hassie in several compromising situations. Author Cory offers a deceptively sophisticated look into the life of an ambitious young woman during the era of the Rat Pack, whose very passions impede her dreams in a way that many women could secretly relate to.