Clare Naylor

Mimi Hare

A former congressional intern who takes a job as second assistant at a powerful Hollywood talent agency, Elizabeth Miller copes with the trials, tribulations, and dirty dealings of the film world.

A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder

The Second Assistant

Stunned when her fiancé calls off their wedding, Liv Elliot embarks on a life-altering trip to Sydney, Australia, where she finds a new career and new romance, until a chance encounter with Ben Parker, with whom she had indulged in a brief summer fling, turns her life of upside down. Reprint.

Dog Handling

Discouraged by the simultaneous loss of her job, apartment, and boyfriend, twentysomething Alice Lewis accepts the offer of her American girlfriend, Tash, to move to Los Angeles to take a job in a glamorous PR firm, but she soon discovers that she is being pursued by a mystery man, who has crossed the Atlantic to woo her. Reissue.

Catching Alice

A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain

The First Assistant

A former congressional intern must learn to deal with the deranged, the dastardly and the unspeakably glamorous when she takes a job at a Hollywood agency.

Elizabeth's first task upon becoming second assistant to Hollywood manager Scott Wagner and his side-kick Lara is to separate the beige thumb tacks from the coloured ones on the notice board. When Lara takes her out for a drink and tells her never to date anyone in the business, she thinks it'll be a doddle.

Kate Disney, who makes a living painting animal portraits, is content with her cramped garage studio and her convenient, part-time boyfriend, until she meets screen legend Mirabelle Mocur, who hires Kate to paint her pet lion cub and who turns Kate's life upside down with her encouragement, advice, and growing friendship. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

The Goddess Rules

When she catches the eye of London's handsomest young movie star, a twentysomething fashion assistant named Amy wonders if it spells fame, fortune, and love, or the road to ruin, in a hit English novel. Original.

A User's Guide

Love

After losing a job, boyfriend, and apartment all within one kick-me-when-I'm-down week, Alice Lewis desperately needs a break. So when an old pal sweeps into London and offers her escape, Alice jumps at the chance--and onto the next plane to Los Angeles, the city of . . . yeah, right. L.A. turns out to be a little less "angelic" than the down-to-earth English girl anticipated. For one, there's the new nine-to-five: the unbelievably glamorous, frenzied chore of coddling (doing PR for) the stars--not to mention the bevy of gorgeous, stick-thin models who suddenly appear in Alice's orbit and the suntan/convertible lifestyle that taunts her pasty-white self (starting with her thighs). And just when she thinks her new life couldn't get any more surreal, Alice acquires that most American of accessories: her very own stalker. While the B-list actresses grumble how unfair it is that Alice gets a stalker and they don't, Alice tries to figure out who the mystery man leaving her poems and flowers could be. Is it Charlie, the slick but twisted talent agent? Or Paddy, the hot Irish director who has eyes for any breathing woman? Or maybe it's Tommy, the unbelievably beautiful and totally wasted movie star? Because if truth be told, Alice doesn't think it's all that strange, this stalker business. In fact, she's pretty sure it's downright romantic . . .

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