Synopsis
Changes (Book 1)
Ready, Set, Drama
Adriana Banovic’s
15th birthday sucked! She got fired after eight years of playing Shayanne
Montgomery on the #1 soap in the country, found out that her family was on the
verge of bankruptcy and worst of all, forced to return to Westwood Academy. Her
only saving grace was a chance glance at dreamy mystery boy Haze Lyndon. Armed
with only his picture and a determination to find him—even if it means turning
Los Angeles over on its ass.
In this new adult
novel you'll meet Robin Banovic, Adriana's father; financially challenged,
dealing with the death of a family member and his brother's disappearance.
You'll meet Savannah DaCosta aka Savi, mother/manager; Savi enjoys the life her
rock star daughter Leighann has provided. When Leighann makes a choice to end
her career, Savi sees it as a personal attack.
You'll meet college
boy Haze Lyndon; New to Los Angeles, Haze soon realizes how quickly money
changes hands in the City of Angels. Will he return to questionable ways to
survive or go back to the safety of his family in Wisconsin?
Banovic Siblings (Book 2)
Blackmail is a gift that keeps on giving.
College boy Kevin
Banovic’s casual affair with Savi DaCosta suited him perfectly. Things change
when he finds out that Savi is his mom’s high school bestie. When Kevin tries
to end their affair, Savi blackmails him. After Kevin rescues Savi’s
stepdaughter, L’Wren, from her abusive boyfriend, he can’t stop thinking about
her. He must find a way to handle Savi, protect L’Wren, and keep his sanity.
Bad girl Adriana
Banovic is pleased with herself for getting her nemesis expelled from Westwood
Academy. As feelings between her and her latest victim Haze Lyndon escalate, an
unexpected rival discovers her secret and threatens to expose her. With
emotions on the line, will her new rival beat her at her own game or end up
another casualty of Adriana’s wrath?
Zax Banovic has it all. Tall and handsome, he’s an academic genius, with a
killer smile and a heart of gold. When his best friend gets into trouble, he
feels responsible and covers for him. But his best friend is not as honorable
and has other plans for Zax.
Bastard’s Brew (Book 3)
Everything we touch we
destroy
When L'Wren's
ex-boyfriend Jeff suddenly disappears, she turns to Kevin to help her find him.
With one phone call, Kevin makes sure that Jeff stays hidden and that L'Wren's
heart is broken, leaving the door open for Kevin to pursue her. But Kevin is
not as free as L'Wren thinks; she is in the dark about his affair with her
stepmother, Savi. Savi constantly reminds Kevin of his devious ways and uses
their secret to keep him as her toyfriend.
“You don’t deserve to be loved, and you don’t deserve to be happy. You
and I are the same … we’re broken inside. Everything we touch, we destroy. We
don’t get happily ever after … we don’t get to ride off into the sunset. You
know who gets that? L’Wren … she gets it, she gets the guy, and she deserves a
decent guy.”- Savi
Kevin desires to be
the man that L'Wren deserves, but before he can assume the role of white
knight, he brews one last plan to get rid of Savi for good. Will L'Wren, the
innocent victim in their twisted game, become a casualty?
Kevin may have sold
his body to the devil in stilettos, but he'd be damned if he let her have his
heart.
Perfect Escape (Book 4)
In this coming-of-age story, teen singing
sensation Leighann DaCosta tries to find out who she is without her music
career. A career that has been part of her life since before the age of ten.
When Leighann’s estranged father enters her life, she is caught up in a
tug-of-war between both parents. Does she trust the man who abandoned her as a
baby, or a mother who is losing her mind?
When heartthrob Zax Banovic is assigned to
tutor Leighann, he provides her with the perfect escape from the madness in her
life. Enter Kristin Newman, Zax’s super-hot, sickeningly perfect, tennis-pro
girlfriend, who dampens any chance Leighann has with him.
After the unthinkable happens, Leighann’s
world is shattered, causing her to shut everyone out. Unable to cope, Leighann
accepts help from her frenemy, but will the help she accept come with a hefty
price?
Excerpt:
Seventeen-year-old
Zax Banovic was tall, gorgeous and smelled like citrus with a hint of musk. His
sandy blond hair, mesmerizing blue eyes, and kissable lips complemented his
athletic body perfectly. Leighann DaCosta, like many other girls at Westwood
Academy, got an eyeful when he ran out of the boys’ locker room in his
underwear chasing some girl down the halls of Westwood Academy.
Leighann
blushed when she saw his ripped abs, tight ass and generous package filling out
his heather gray CK briefs. Since then, he frequented her dreams a million
times, but instead of chasing after another girl, he ran to her, pinned her up against the lockers and ravaged her.
In reality,
Zax represented the other half of Westwood Academy's super couple…
Kristin
(The Bod) Newman was the lust object of every boy at Westwood Academy. She was
the school's tennis champ and well on her way to going pro. Girls hated her,
not because of her killer legs or the way she rocked her tennis outfits, but
because she was dating Zax Banovic. They were the Brad Pit and Jennifer Aniston
(pre-Angelina) of Westwood Academy. Together they were known as ZaxTin.
Together, Zax and Kristin were sickeningly perfect.
They walked the halls of
Westwood Academy cooing at each other, totally wrapped up in their own
universe.
Zax was the
first boy who had taken Leighann out on a date. She was so giddy with
excitement that she didn't realize that he'd only ask her out to make Kristin
jealous. Their second date (pre-Kristin) was cleverly orchestrated by Zax's
bratty sister, Adriana, who used Leighann's crush on him as a bargaining chip.
Leighann
opened her locker and glanced at the locker next to hers. The locker, which now
stood vacant, once belonged to Adriana Banovic. Despite her prickly
personality, Leighann missed her, and the school wasn't the same since she'd
gotten expelled, or ‘transferred’ as they were calling it. Adriana was
interesting to watch, she had a way of twisting things to make it work in her
favor no matter how wrong it was.
Leighann admired her confidence and
fearlessness as much as she admired her style risks. Adriana wore what she
wanted, when she wanted, and however she wanted. Her style was copied by several
imitators that had popped up since her expulsion ‘transfer’.
The students of
Westwood Academy seemed to have a weird love-hate obsession with her. Even
though they missed her, no one ever dared come out and admit it.
When the
bell to Math class rang, Leighann's stomach churned. She hated math and failed
every test that she’d been given. She desperately needed help, but was too
ashamed to ask. When Mr. Wells, the Math teacher, returned her test results,
once again he asked to see her after class. Leighann was used to their talks,
and while Mr. Wells did his best to help her with extra lessons, it took too
much of his time.
This time he presented her with a possible solution; the Give
Back Program. He explained that the graduating seniors of Westwood Academy who
excelled in a particular subject would volunteer to tutor juniors who were
struggling in their area of expertise. The program had a 100 percent success
rate, and he believed that the success was because students learned better from
their peers.
"The
list of juniors waiting to get in the program is very long, and we have more
juniors waiting to get in than seniors willing to tutor."
"What
are my chances of getting in?" Leighann asked hopefully.
"You're
in," Mr. Wells replied happily. He had already enrolled her, knowing that
she wouldn’t object. He suspected that she wanted to do well.
Leighann
was thrilled. She thanked him profusely and received instructions to meet her
tutor at the east campus library after school.
Leighann
waited outside of the library, where the other juniors were gathered. One by
one they paired off with their respective tutors and disappeared. She prayed
that her tutor would be patient and wouldn't make fun of her because she was a
slow learner. Leighann often wondered if she had a learning disability. All her
life she’d had to fit her academic schedule around her music career, and this
was her first foray into institutionalized education.
At the age
of ten, Leighann won her first Grammy, and since then, she’d had a career that
most fifteen-year-old girls would kill for. But she wasn’t happy and longed for
a life outside of stardom. With the support of her sister/confidante, she
resigned from the music business at the height of her career and faced scathing
backlash from the press, the record label, disappointed fans and especially her
mother/manager.
Leighann’s
quest for a normal life began when she moved to California to live with her
sister, L’Wren. She enrolled in Westwood Academy of Higher Learning, the Rolls
Royce of high schools in California and possibly the country. Her father was an
alumni, and recently she’d found out that her mother was as well—even though
her mother never graduated. Leighann was determined to graduate and possibly go
on to college like L’Wren.
The thought of that excited her, but she doubted
herself. What if she couldn’t cut it? What if all she could do was sing and
play instruments? Could she go back to the industry that she’d shut the door
on? The thought of that sent shivers down her spine.
Almost
twenty minutes had passed, and all the tutors and tutees were paired up.
Leighann began to wonder if she had been stood up by her tutor. What if her
tutor had found out that they were assigned to her and opted for someone else?
Leighann's heart sank. She wanted to prove to her mother that she was good at
something other than singing and performing.
Her mother had beaten it into her
brain that she would never amount to anything other than a singer, and Leighann
began to wonder if she was right. Maybe she should drop out of school and beg
the record label for another chance. Her songs were still on the charts, and
maybe it wasn't too late. Leighann left the library disappointed.
"LD!"
she heard a familiar voice call out, and footsteps running behind her. She
froze; only one person on the planet called her LD.
Oh God, please don't let it be … she prayed, then turned around.
"Sorry
I'm late. Basketball practice went a little long," Zax apologized.
His eyes …
those eyes … mesmerizing, seducing, enticing … pulled her in.
Excerpt Links
Changes (Book 1) - http://familyportrait.plaintalkbm.com/excerpt-changes/
Banovic Siblings
(Book 2) - http://familyportrait.plaintalkbm.com/excerpt-banovic-siblings/
Bastard’s Brew (Book
3) - http://familyportrait.plaintalkbm.com/excerpt-bastards-brew/
Perfect Escape (Book
4) - http://familyportrait.plaintalkbm.com/excerpt-perfect-escape/
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Author Bio
Gillian Felix was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She grew
up watching night time soap operas by Aaron Spelling with her mother. That’s
where her obsession with rich, powerful and devious characters were born.
After repeatedly seeing Mr. Spelling’s name on the screen night after night,
Gillian knew she wanted to be an Aaron Spelling, before she knew that Aaron
Spelling was actually a person.
Gillian pursued drama in high school although it was not
taught as a “serious subject”. When asked what career she wanted to pursue
after graduation, she told her guidance counselor that she wanted to be an
actress, and was told that acting is not a “real job”.
When Gillian moved to the US in 1998, she landed an
internship with Spotlight On Theater in New York City, where she learned stage
managing, casting and the technical aspect of running a
production. Later she branched out into film, and fell in love with the
behind the scenes action of film and theatre production. She
traded acting and her “real job” for a career in film and theater
production. Gillian continued writing novels and scripts but kept them to
herself.
When not writing, Gillian can be found volunteering at the
New Mexico Children’s Grief Center or hiking the many mountains that surround
New Mexico. Gillian can easily get lost in a parking lot and considers herself
directionally challenged. She is always grateful for the people she hikes with,
because without them she’d be left roaming the mountains like a lost mountain
goat.
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