Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Chick Lit/Women’s Lit category of The USA “Best Books
2011” Awards
2011 International Book Awards
Finalist for Literary Fiction
2011 National Indie Excellence
Awards Finalist for New Fiction
Great Fiction
Hassie Calhoun
A Las Vegas Novel of Innocence
By Pamela Cory
Fiction/Literature
$15.95
6 x 9, 368 pages, paperback
ISBN (tr): 978-0-9824584-7-1
ISBN (ebook): 978-0-9824584-8-8
Publication Date: June 1, 2011
Great for book clubs—includes discussion questions
In this first book of a coming of age trilogy, 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. 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.
To learn more about Pamela Cory and the Hassie Calhoun Trilogy, visit her website.
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