Box Office Poison (Linnet Ellery) (37 page)

“You are a very strange human, Linnet.”

Qwendar’s words echoed in my mind. I shivered, then Jeff sang out,

“Chow time!” and people began gathering up plates and forming a line at the grill while David leaned against the stone wall of the terrace. I shook off my sudden chill, and joined my friends.

About the Author

P
HILLIPA
B
ORNIKOVA
has been the story editor of a major network television series, a horse trainer, and an oil-company executive. She lives in the Southwest.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

BOX OFFICE POISON

Copyright © 2013 by Melinda Snodgrass

All rights reserved.

Cover photographs by Getty Images

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Bornikova, Phillipa.

    Box office poison / Phillipa Bornikova.

        pages cm

    “A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

    ISBN 978-0-7653-2683-6 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4299-4890-6 (e-book)

  1.  Motion pictures—Fiction.   2.  Motion picture actors and actresses—Fiction.   3.  Women lawyers—Fiction.   4.  Vampires—Fiction.   I.  Title.

    PS3602.O765B79 2013

    813'.6—dc23

2013015151

e-ISBN 9781429948906

First Edition: August 2013