Friendship Fog is an urban fairy tale for anyone who has ever been in love...or searched for it desperately. From a Fourth of July celebration in 1976 introducing four young lives in Friendship, Maine to modern day Manhattan, this charming cocktail infused with arresting humor spans the decades in a singular, fanciful exploration of the heart and mind-and ultimately, friendship. Clifford Bowles is now the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire while in the midst of a lonely midlife crisis. However, his boozy best friend Van Dillon is a prominent theatrical agent, whom fate has recently delivered into the paws of a hunky veterinarian. Orlanda DeCardinier, a ridiculous psychic career coach, has a bigger hand in all of the business than even she realizes as the estranged Laura Trelawny, a frazzled psychiatrist, re-emerges to reveal a most disquieting secret that affects them all.
In the mid-1990s, Manhattan quivered under a dreadful affliction. For one group of New Yorkers, what starts out as a caper worthy of the Hardy Boys themselves quickly spirals into a reckless mission of obsession and a dangerous love affair with dire consequences. Crafted with the focused perspective of the voyeur, the pale of memory portrays a shifting world of the questionable protagonist, a young man named Scott. As he attempts to hide his secrets, he also tries to transform his new lover in a desperate attempt to recreate his own past. For Scott, nothing is as it seems in the swirling vortex of lies, trickery, and emotional misdirection. As perceptions are revealed and confronted, everything Scott wants to believe is challenged with haunting vigor. Too soon, Scotts mania reveals more than he can comprehend or manage. From the darkest memories of his curious, confusing past, Scotts present is about to spin out of control too, to a place where the pale of memory builds to a devastating crescendo. Hitchcocks Vertigo with sexy, dangerous young men. Had me hooked from page one. Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergists Wife Recently chosen as Book of the Month in Interior Design Magazine. For more information, please visit http://thepaleofmemory.com\nthepaleofmemory.com
In the mid-1990s, Manhattan quivered under a dreadful affliction. For one group of New Yorkers, what starts out as a caper worthy of the Hardy Boys themselves quickly spirals into a reckless mission of obsession and a dangerous love affair with dire consequences. Crafted with the focused perspective of the voyeur, the pale of memory portrays a shifting world of the questionable protagonist, a young man named Scott. As he attempts to hide his secrets, he also tries to transform his new lover in a desperate attempt to recreate his own past. For Scott, nothing is as it seems in the swirling vortex of lies, trickery, and emotional misdirection. As perceptions are revealed and confronted, everything Scott wants to believe is challenged with haunting vigor. Too soon, Scott’s mania reveals more than he can comprehend or manage. From the darkest memories of his curious, confusing past, Scott’s present is about to spin out of control too, to a place where the pale of memory builds to a devastating crescendo. “Hitchcock’s Vertigo with sexy, dangerous young men. Had me hooked from page one.” —Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife Recently chosen as Book of the Month in “Interior Design” Magazine. For more information, please visit http://thepaleofmemory.com\nthepaleofmemory.com
his hilarious, wickedly clever jewel earnestly follows the gruesome trials of brothers Reynald and Willoughby Chalmers, who reluctantly become involved in the bloodied, spinach laden trail of a chainsaw-wielding madman. The rarefied pair of witty, modern day dandies are unwittingly served as the main ingredients in a most diabolical stew, as the shocking, tightly knit yarn unravels. With the help of the illustrious Inspector Hamwich Gumm, the brothers discover that the murder mystery of questionable manners turns out to be quite a fiendish family affair indeed.
All aboard . . . thats prepared to die! World-renowned authors and brothers Reynald and Willoughby Chalmers are back in this unexpectedly gruesome seafaring mystery where murder becomes an inconvenient, most unwelcome guest upon the elegantly refurbished clipper ship Waltzing Matilda. In The Murdery Delicious High Seas Horror, the sequel to the compelling The Murdery Delicious Hamwich Gumm Mystery, the Chalmers brothers and their wives find themselves quite stranded at sea, swirling around a tempestuous cast of unforgettable, highly fishy fellow luminaries. What was intended to be a luxurious passage to the Cte dAzur becomes instead a bloody plunge into a crashing wave of treachery and lies. The unsuspecting passengers soon discover themselves knotted together by old secrets that only raise further finger-pointing questions. Who on the ship will be able to keep their heads above water? And who will become fish food? In any case, all the members aboard find the Waltzing Matilda to be quite a fearsome kettle of fish indeed!
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
The Chalmers brothers have returned in the devastating finale of the Murdery Delicious trilogy. Theyre a little older, perhaps wiser, and undoubtedly more terrified. As The Murdery Delicious Blood Stone Secret unfolds, a breezy summer getaway at their newly restored ancestral home quickly becomes a crawl through the gnarled branches of the Chalmers family tree. Reality itself is questioned, even as fear takes root center stage. Along the Chalmerses journey, readers have followed them through literary genres such as the Penny Dreadful and the classic Whodunnit?, and now the brothers, their wives, and their children find themselves subjected to perils only found in a decidedly ghastly ghost story. Who can uncover the buried secret of Blood Stone Manor? What lurks behind the drapes? The only certainty is that some houses are never meant to be left behind as much as some inhabitants pray to leave them. Do peer past the gate, wont you?
Friendship Fog is an urban fairy tale for anyone who has ever been in love...or searched for it desperately. From a Fourth of July celebration in 1976 introducing four young lives in Friendship, Maine to modern day Manhattan, this charming cocktail infused with arresting humor spans the decades in a singular, fanciful exploration of the heart and mind-and ultimately, friendship. Clifford Bowles is now the ultra-fabulous mogul who helms the Divine Living omni-media empire while in the midst of a lonely midlife crisis. However, his boozy best friend Van Dillon is a prominent theatrical agent, whom fate has recently delivered into the paws of a hunky veterinarian. Orlanda DeCardinier, a ridiculous psychic career coach, has a bigger hand in all of the business than even she realizes as the estranged Laura Trelawny, a frazzled psychiatrist, re-emerges to reveal a most disquieting secret that affects them all.
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