![]() “I’ve got one photo of him,” she upbraided Bucky. She could relive his lips on hers, his fingertips stroking her skin, his breath warming the base of her throat. If Luke hadn’t been hiding out here last month, Nell wouldn’t have thought of his bunk as the ideal place to sink into a soft mattress and wonder when she might get a letter from him. If the Arabella is anybody’s, he seemed to say, it’s Luke Valenti’s. “Of all the pirate ships in all the world, did you have to sneak onto mine?”īucky gazed at her. “Damnit, Bucky!” She menaced the studio’s ginger tabby cat with her sternest frown. ![]() The tiny photo in her right hand slipped through her fingers and fluttered over the wooden railing and onto the asphalt. Something soft and furry ran along Nell’s arm. Sometimes a girl needed a restful nook to recover her wits-like a cozy bunk on a fake pirate ship after everybody else had bolted for the next streetcar or nearest bar. But now there was twice the competition for the morning bathroom. Thankfully, Nell had to contend with only one extra girl hanging damp stockings over her coral-pink lampshade. And there had been no tranquility at Nell’s boardinghouse after the Office of War Information had asked landlords to jam two lodgers into each room. Wartime audiences searching for escape and romance ensured that studios were raking it in, which meant Warners was releasing film after film after film. She watched the white beam from the security guard’s flashlight whisk across Stage Sixteen and didn’t draw another breath until the murky shadows had swallowed him whole. Nell Davenport peeked over the balustrade of the Warner Bros. It’s caused only trouble in the past, but finding Luke is her top priority and the clock of war is ticking.įrom the author of the Hollywood’s Garden of Allah novels comes book two in the Hollywood Home Front trilogy-a story set against one of Tinseltown’s greatest true-life love stories. Hope appears on the horizon, but did it have to come from Hedda Hopper, a nasty gossip queen intent on ruining Bogie’s reputation? Maybe Nell’s best way of finding Luke is to unveil a secret she has kept ever since she landed in California. ![]() When momentous news arrives, Nell must track down Luke-a seemingly impossible feat in wartime. But when a captivating 19-year-old is cast opposite Bogie in To Have and Have Not, the newcomer’s arrival threatens to alter the course of Nell’s blossoming friendship. movie studios as she develops a surprising bond with star Humphrey Bogart. ![]() Nell sets her sights on the publicity department of the Warner Bros. With combat raging across Europe and the Pacific, jobs of all kinds are now open to women on the home front. After waving her sweetheart, Luke, off to war, Nell Davenport encounters an unexpected entanglement that will change Hollywood forever. ![]()
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