A daughter of Hollywood royalty, Roxanne Granville is used to getting what she wants, even if she has to break the rules. But after a falling-out with her powerful grandfather, she's on her own. Roxanne forges a unique career for women in the 1950s as an agent for hungry young screenwriters. She struggles to be taken seriously by the men who rule Hollywood, some of whom expect sexual favors as part of doing business. After Roxanne sells a blacklisted writer's script under a front man's name, other exiled writers seek her out. When she meets a compelling African American journalist she is swept into a passionate relationship that could destroy everhthing she's built.--back cover
adult
Laura Kalpakian.
The great pretenders
Kalpakian, Laura
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