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  1. Cover Page
  2. Front Flap
  3. Title Page
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
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“I’m just teasing you, sweetheart. You’re adorable. I wish you didn’t spend all your time writing that meditation book. Don’t you get lonely in there?”

Cleo shrugged. “I won’t be doing it for much longer.”

“Can I read what you’ve written so far?”

“I’ll send you a copy when it’s published.”

He stared at her, grinning again. He put a toothpick in his mouth. “Your secrets are safe with me.”

Is he putting me on? Cleo wondered. Does he know who I am? If he does, he’s a better actor than I am. But he can tell I’m hiding something. “I’d better get back to work.”

“You don’t want to go for a cool dip first?” Dirk asked. “Our lake has got the cleanest water you’ve ever seen. I’m going for a quick swim. Why don’t you join me? I promise I’ll get you back up here in no time at all. Come on.”

“I would but …”

“I’m not taking no for an answer,” Dirk interrupted with a wave of his hand. He turned and walked around the corner of the other side of the cabin.

“What?” Cleo asked under her breath as she followed him. When she rounded the bend, she felt her knees go weak. Hanging on the clothesline was the bathing suit she knew she had left in Edna’s pool house. How did it get there? How?

16

Daisy Harris was changing clothes in the crummy bathroom of a gas station, getting into the outfit she’d be wearing in her next scene. They weren’t kidding when they said this would be low budget, Daisy thought. She was tired and sunburned but happy to be working. Her part was that of a waitress in a roadside diner in the middle of nowhere. A rambling kind of guy, unbelievably handsome, wanders in, and they end up falling in love. But because the course of true love never does run smooth, especially in a movie, his ex-girlfriend shows up at Daisy’s isolated house in the middle of the night and tries to kill her.

Daisy was grateful the reshoots of that scene were over. April Dockton, the actress who played the ex-girlfriend, didn’t have to do much acting for the part. She knew Daisy was Cleo’s best friend. And the lead in My Super Super had almost gone to April. It had been down to the wire, with Cleo and April being called back several times. The director finally chose Cleo, the movie was a hit, and Cleo was a star. Not that she didn’t have her troubles, thanks to the stalker movie, but she was a star.