Sometimes the only way to find your life is to walk away from it.What would you give for a chance to start over?A chance to find redemption? A chance to love again?Writer Spencer K. Atwood wants it all. Handsome, talented, and driven to succeed, she approaches the Los Angeles film scene. But her cruise down Hollywood's dazzling fast lane soon becomes a dizzying blur of ambition, obsession, and sexual abandon that inevitably careens out of control…and costs her everything.In the wake of this wreckage, Spencer travels to Oregon and rents an isolated oceanside cottage. As she looks back over her life trying to figure out how her passions have driven her she begins to understand the threats to her soul. Spencer returns to the one thing that will heal her: her writing. She begins Cynara, a sweeping epic set against the haunting backdrop of Paris in the twenties. Spencer's gripping novel recounts the passionate life-and loves-of notorious lesbian writer Byron Harrington and the reclusive sculptress, Cynara. As she writes from her depths, Spencer begins to believe that maybe, just maybe, she can regain what's really important to her…From the renowned filmmaker and novelist, Nicole Conn, creator of Claire of the Moon (book and film), Moments (The Making of Claire of the Moon), and Cynara, Poetry in Motion (film), comes this defining romantic work. Nicole Conn has been a die-hard romantic and black and white film fan from the age of ten. This passion for film carried her through her first feature where she single-handedly raised the money, wrote, directed and produced Claire of the Moon, the maverick film about a woman's journey to her sexual identity. Conn achieved industry recognition with her film Claire of the Moon and was a finalist in the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. She believes in giving back to the community and sponsored the Claire of the Moon Scholarship in 1998, awarding second time novelists through the ASTRAEA Foundation. Nicole has written five novels including Claire of the Moon. Additionally, she has penned a parent's guide, two teleplays, nine screenplays, and has produced four soundtracks.
