A Las Vegas Affair by Arlene Krieger
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A Las Vegas Affair is the perfect summer read. Filled with love, romance, a moving plot line it is unlike any other romance. The story line commences in college when the couple meet.
The romance novel is centered on Brea, who meets the love of her life in college. Brea was raised in a small town outside of Boston and both her parents toiled in blue collar jobs to be able to send Brea and their other two sons through college.
In her junior year, she meets and falls in love with Noel, who was raised in midtown Boston in an upper-class neighborhood. Elizabeth, Noel’s mother, is unhappy with her son’s choice and tries to derail their relationship.
After college, Brea begins student teaching in a Boston urban high school and meets a young student whose brother, Jeff, was wrongfully charged with murder. Brea writes Jeff’s biography and Willard, Noel’s father who is rich and has many connections, finds a publisher. Despite all efforts, the book does not set Jeff free.
Brea and Noel soon marry. Willard, who loves his new daughter-in-law, continues to find subjects who want their biographies written and she churns out several books.
While Brea is happy in her life, teaching and writing, Noel becomes despondent in his father’s accounting practice. On a whim, the couple moves to Las Vegas. Noel’s genius with money lands them a dream house, although it needs fixing up. She continued writing and he continued his profession in a prestigious Las Vegas firm. One of Noel’s clients, Sandy Star, a world-famous performer, asks Brea to write his biography. During the writing process Sandy and his wife, Stephanie divorce. Stephane has grown fond of Noel’s accounting skills and becomes one of his clients. She is intensely jealous of her ex-spouse and thinks Brea, who meets him twice weekly for lunch, is his lover. Stephanie begins flirting with Noel and demands his time and affection. Things escalate as Stephanie becomes more obsessed with Noel.
Sandy’s biography is finished and there is a book launch with three hundred media present. Stephanie, who has harbored intense jealousy, pulls out a gun and does the unthinkable. The media sent this shocking vision around the world.
Brea is heartbroken, believing no one would ever ask her to write another biography but the sales of Sandy’s book skyrocket. Offers come flooding in asking her to write other stories. Brea reflects on her first book and how well she wrote the story, but Jeff was still in prison. Flush with money, she uses her royalty check and hires a crack defense team who changes Jeff’s destiny.