Dragon's Fire

by Max Wyman

Loreena Kisk, a young and energetic Hollywood film producer, takes on the challenges of the business world. She moonlights as a labor mediator, while balancing a life in the crossfire of media, jealous paramours, and the pitfalls of the Hollywood fast lane. Her challenges are mirrored in the lives of five other women, each presented with their own gauntlets to navigate. Self-worth, love, and career pursuit are the questions of focus, energy, and decision. Glen Fisher pilots a rocket plane built for space rescue, but finds himself at the whims of politics, NASA, and an apathetic Senate oversight committee. Together, Kisk and Fisher battle their separate dragons, finding their ways and means oddly similar. She deals in people, big budgets, and the Hollywood press, with his world bound to technology and anonymity. Fate pushed them together as the realities of separate paths pull them apart. There is a final crossroads for the two to choose their destinies—is there a place for wisdom when reality leaves so little time for thought, life, and love?

235 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 5, 2011

About the author

--studied piano and theory as a youth and began his career in journalism with the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph at 14
--worked 1960-7 as an editor, arts critic, and feature writer for London newspapers and magazines
--Moved to Vancouver, B.C., Canada in 1967
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