Read Between the Lies
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Publisher Description
Step into the world of New York fashion and into the lives of three ambitious women, each of whom has a secret to hide.
Gabrielle Donovan is a stunning and feisty nineteen-year-old who comes to New York hoping to realize her dream of becoming a supermodel. Gabrielle quickly takes the fashion industry by storm, but just as her celebrity begins to soar, her past threatens to catch up with her.
Felicia Wilcot is a successful black woman from a privileged background whose hot public relations firm is responsible for Gabrielle's instant success. At home, however, Felicia is struggling to keep her troubled marriage intact, despite the temptation of an intense attraction to a downtown movie director.
Stephanie Bancroft always dreamed of being a rich and famous writer. In New York, while trying to realize her dream, she meets her nemesis--the beautiful Gabrielle Donovan. As a publicist at Felicia's firm, Stephanie helps prop up Gabrielle's image publicly while secretly trying to tear it down, vowing to let nothing stand in the way of the success she's determined to have.
With a good dose of Olivia Goldsmith and a splash of Bebe Moore Campbell, Read Between the Lies is the irresistible story of three captivating women who find themselves forced to risk everything in the name of love, power, greed, and survival.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her fiction debut, a tale of three ambitious young career women trying to make it in the Big Apple, Emmy Award-winning writer Woolridge comes on like Judith Krantz with a social conscience. Gabrielle Donovan arrives in New York longing to become a supermodel; Stephanie Bancroft is determined to break through as a writer; Felicia Wilcot, the daughter of a wealthy black family and the wife of a successful attorney, wants her public relations firm to succeed on its own merits. When Stephanie lands a job as Felicia's secretary, she quickly books her new friend Gabrielle as a model for one of the firm's clients. As the three women's fortunes become intertwined, however, it becomes apparent to the reader that they all have secrets to hide. Gabrielle is illiterate, a fact that humiliates her even as she achieves her dream of superstardom. Felicia begins an extramarital affair with a controversial Spike Lee-ish director, despite their initial antagonistic encounters. Scrappy and opportunistic Stephanie reveals her true colors. When the truth about their pasts come out, will it finally set them free? Woolridge contributes lavish amounts of designer opulence and jet-set scenarios to her confectionery plot, adding some substance through her themes of secret illiteracy and the plight of successful black women. Some biting dialogue brings zest to what is essentially a classic combination of glitz, romance, secrets and lies. Outreach, and has worked in television broadcasting for ABC, PBS and Black Entertainment Television.
