What if a simple chance meeting changed your whole life? Jake Starr, the biggest movie star in the world, crashes into Rebecca, the young blonde secretary at Movie Star Studios. What if your idol said these things to you? "I want to explore your deepest fantasies with you. I want to hear you moan in ecstasy when I'm inside of you. I want to explore every inch of your beautiful body. Please stay." Would Jake be the one to completely change Rebecca's life? His obsessive need for control in every aspect of his life could destroy him. Will Rebecca be able to save him? Controlled by the Studio, will Jake be able to break free to be with his one true love or will circumstances beyond his control and a fake wife with her own agenda destroy his career, happiness and the only truly important thing in his life - his love for Rebecca? 1930s Hollywood. Where everything is not as it seems. Just a little warning or an FYI if you like. I don't - do - gentle. - Jake Starr

At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across stylistic and political divides-like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez-see their work as being framed within the confines of a globalized Western literary tradition, their relationship, rather than epigonal, is often subversive. Borges and Kafka, Bolano and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchu and Lurgio Gavilan, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.

A searing drought has come to Round Prairie, and with it, a young runaway from Georgia in search of his long-lost father. At Four Cedars, Lycurgus and Rachael Sherwood welcome their first-born child, Charles Douglas Sherwood. Surge is called upon to help the two runaways reunite, and to rescue them from the grasp of river pirates. The climactic reunion of these two tormented souls unfolds with all the explosive force of a hurricane.