Excerpt:
As the blare of the clock radio on the night table jolted her awake,
Shari Barnes rubbed her eyes, blew
her long brown hair out of her face, and snuggled into Nathan Townsend’s chest.
She curled her body around his middle and took a deep whiff of his salty,
masculine neck.
But she couldn’t ignore the voice on the radio.
“Monday morning traffic,” she sighed.
Nathan matched the sigh and put his arms around her. “At least you don’t
have to drive over the hill.”
“Yeah, I would just die if I had to drive into Beverly Hills every day
to work in a beautiful office.”
Shari giggled and disappeared under their thick blue comforter for a few
more moments of sleepy-headed bliss. She felt Nathan stretch up, and a moment
later the radio shut off. Then he slid down next to her in the single bed they
shared in their Studio City apartment, a few blocks north of Ventura Boulevard.
The constant drone and rumble of another L.A. morning came clearly through the
open window: cars honking, rock music blaring, the frantic scurrying sounds of
the film shoot a few blocks away. Shari ran her bare feet up the inside of
Nathan’s thigh.
He jumped. “Shit, your feet are cold.” He pushed her legs off of him.
“What time is it?” she murmured between kisses.
“Um, seven.” He nuzzled her neck and she felt him becoming erect against
her.
“No time for that!” She threw off the covers. “Gotta be at work on time
for once; gotta get my asp out of bed.”
“There’s a snake in the bed?” Nathan grabbed her with both hands and
gave her belly gentle nips.
“Yeah, of the one-eyed variety.”
Shari leaped to the floor and padded naked into the bathroom. She turned
the hot water in the shower to high and stepped in, filling the small bathroom
with steam.
She had just poured a green drop of shampoo into her palm and was
running her hands together when the flimsy yellow and white shower curtain flew
back and Nathan grinned in at her. She smiled back, surprised by neither his
arrival nor the partial hard-on that preceded him.
“Mind if we join you?” he asked.
“There’s enough shampoo for everybody,” Shari said as she rubbed her
hands across her scalp.
He stepped into the stall, pulled the curtain closed and began to lather
her hair for her. She put her hands on his back, feeling the taut muscles and
the water streaming there, but did not reach down between them. It took him
about five seconds to realize it and hold her away.
“You okay?”
“Fine….”
“Don’t lie; I can always tell when you have something on your mind.”
“You know me better than I know me,” she said.
“You know it.” He pushed her wet hair over her shoulders. “Come on,
give.”
“I was thinking maybe I should get a second job.”
“You’re worrying about money again?”
“Well, I have to shoot my student thesis film this year or I won’t
graduate. But where am I going to get the money I need?”
“How much do you need?”
“At least five figures.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BLURB:
Fraudulent car
accidents is a multi-million dollar racket, involving unscrupulous medical
providers, personal injury attorneys, and the cooperating passengers involved
in the accidents and who also receive a portion of the illegal proceeds. Such
is the fate of newly engaged, Nathan and Shari, whose joy is tempered by the
dark cloud of mounting debt. A chance encounter with a stranger in whom Shari
confides her troubles, proves fortuitous: he tells her of a get-rich-quick
scheme that will put her and her fiance on easy street.
Seduced by the chance
to move from hard times to good times in no time, she finds herself acting as a
stuffed passenger the victim in a staged auto accident. Shari gets her payday,
but getting out and breaking free of the insurance fraud underworld will take
nothing short of a miracle. A modern day cautionary tale that uncovers how the
innocent get lured into the scheme of cappers and hammers.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Lindy S. Hudis is a graduate of
New York University, where she studied drama at Tisch School of the Arts. She
is the author of several titles, including her romance suspense novel,
Weekends, her "Hollywood" story City of Toys, and her crime novel,
Crashers. She is also the author of an erotic short story series, "The
S&M Club" and "The Mile High Club". Her short film "The
Lesson" was screened at the Seattle Underground Film Festival and
Cine-Nights in 2000.
She is also an actress, having appeared in the television
daytime drama "Sunset Beach". She and her husband, Hollywood stuntman
Stephen Hudis, have formed their own production company called Impact Motion
Pictures, and have several projects and screenplays in development. She lives
in California with her husband and two children.
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