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Borrowed Lives
The riveting tale of a woman who gets a one-in-a-billion chance to live someone else’s life...
Luna Devon’s whole dismal existence was in the toilet. She wished she could be more like her wild, beautiful, and very best friend, Wren Caldwell. Wren with her three master’s degrees, drop-dead gorgeous figure, poetry in her blood... men in her bed.
But instead, the face looking back at Luna from the mirror was the perfect poster girl for the Council of Churches, and the only man ever in Luna’s life was now out of it, with the divorce papers to prove it. Soon, however, Luna is about to have a near-death experience, and things will never be the same. Things like her birth sign... her driver’s license... her name.
A crazy, senseless West Coast shooting leaves Luna with a hole near her heart, and Wren dead. Now Luna has the chance to be reborn, to transform “Loony” Luna into—who else? Wren.
Taking the job her friend had landed at a hot new California magazine, Luna thinks she has it made. Yet if Wren’s life offers a bed of roses, it certainly has its thorns. Luna finds herself pressured to land an exclusive interview with the media’s murderess of the hour—and hasn’t the slightest idea how to accomplish this assignment. She has the opportunity to impress a handsome movie director—and can’t think of anything impressive to say. And she has to handle Byron, the sexy, lanky, slightly scary man who appears in her apartment—and who just happens to be the ex-con husband Wren never talked about.
With moxie, pizzazz, gutsiness, and fingers crossed, Luna will try her best, even if it means pursuing her happiness with a group of ecological terrorists, a floating high-stakes chess game run by a hoodlum named “Grudge,” her anthropologist father who has taken a pre-teen Indian medicine woman for his new wife, and a man who wants what may be impossible—for Wren to be herself.
Borrowed Lives is filled with stylish suspense. It also brilliantly brings to life the tension between who we are and who we want to be. And it introduces us to a delightful heroine who gets to make life-changing choices for two women... both of them her.
“Delicious, quick-paced, full of wit and flavour. What I especially enjoy about [Obstfeld's] writing is that you can count on witty little nuggets on every page. Borrowed Lives is naughty and satisfying at the same time, a rare combination.”
—Patricia Geary, author of Strange Toys and Living in Ether
“This is contemporary America au naturel—or is that a diablo? Read, laugh, and keep the bromo handy!”
—Janice Weber, author of The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway and Frost the Fiddler
Raymond Obstfeld is a novelist, poet and screenwriter. With more than twenty-five published novels in the mystery, suspense and western genres, he has created and written three successful series as well as having written for two other series.
Luna Devon’s whole dismal existence was in the toilet. She wished she could be more like her wild, beautiful, and very best friend, Wren Caldwell. Wren with her three master’s degrees, drop-dead gorgeous figure, poetry in her blood... men in her bed.
But instead, the face looking back at Luna from the mirror was the perfect poster girl for the Council of Churches, and the only man ever in Luna’s life was now out of it, with the divorce papers to prove it. Soon, however, Luna is about to have a near-death experience, and things will never be the same. Things like her birth sign... her driver’s license... her name.
A crazy, senseless West Coast shooting leaves Luna with a hole near her heart, and Wren dead. Now Luna has the chance to be reborn, to transform “Loony” Luna into—who else? Wren.
Taking the job her friend had landed at a hot new California magazine, Luna thinks she has it made. Yet if Wren’s life offers a bed of roses, it certainly has its thorns. Luna finds herself pressured to land an exclusive interview with the media’s murderess of the hour—and hasn’t the slightest idea how to accomplish this assignment. She has the opportunity to impress a handsome movie director—and can’t think of anything impressive to say. And she has to handle Byron, the sexy, lanky, slightly scary man who appears in her apartment—and who just happens to be the ex-con husband Wren never talked about.
With moxie, pizzazz, gutsiness, and fingers crossed, Luna will try her best, even if it means pursuing her happiness with a group of ecological terrorists, a floating high-stakes chess game run by a hoodlum named “Grudge,” her anthropologist father who has taken a pre-teen Indian medicine woman for his new wife, and a man who wants what may be impossible—for Wren to be herself.
Borrowed Lives is filled with stylish suspense. It also brilliantly brings to life the tension between who we are and who we want to be. And it introduces us to a delightful heroine who gets to make life-changing choices for two women... both of them her.
“Delicious, quick-paced, full of wit and flavour. What I especially enjoy about [Obstfeld's] writing is that you can count on witty little nuggets on every page. Borrowed Lives is naughty and satisfying at the same time, a rare combination.”
—Patricia Geary, author of Strange Toys and Living in Ether
“This is contemporary America au naturel—or is that a diablo? Read, laugh, and keep the bromo handy!”
—Janice Weber, author of The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway and Frost the Fiddler
Raymond Obstfeld is a novelist, poet and screenwriter. With more than twenty-five published novels in the mystery, suspense and western genres, he has created and written three successful series as well as having written for two other series.
425 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 23, 2018
About the author
Raymond Obstfeld
51 books22 followersaka Laramie Dunaway, Jason Frost, Carl Stevens
Raymond Obstfeld is a writer of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and screenplays as well as a professor of English at Orange Coast College. He lives in California.
Obstfeld has authored or co-authored nearly 50 books. Since 2007, he has been co-author to eight books with NBA basketball legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Obstfeld has twice been nominated for the NAACP Image Award, having won once. He has also been nominated for an Edgar A. Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Dead Heat.Early in his writing career, Obstfeld wrote under several pseudonyms (Pike Bishop, Carl Stevens, Jason Frost) because he wrote different genres. After writing over a dozen thrillers, Westerns, and occult novels, he decided to return to mainstream literary fiction that he had written in graduate school. Because he’d already achieved some fame as a mystery writer, he decided to write his new novel under the name Laramie Dunaway. The novel, Hungry Women, was written from the points of view of four women friends. It was published by Warner Books without anyone at the publishing house knowing Obstfeld was a man. The novel went on to great success, being published internationally. Laramie Dunaway published two more novels before informing Warner of his gender. The publisher decided to publish Obstfeld’s next novel, Earth Angel, under his real name.
Raymond Obstfeld is a writer of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and screenplays as well as a professor of English at Orange Coast College. He lives in California.
Obstfeld has authored or co-authored nearly 50 books. Since 2007, he has been co-author to eight books with NBA basketball legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Obstfeld has twice been nominated for the NAACP Image Award, having won once. He has also been nominated for an Edgar A. Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Dead Heat.Early in his writing career, Obstfeld wrote under several pseudonyms (Pike Bishop, Carl Stevens, Jason Frost) because he wrote different genres. After writing over a dozen thrillers, Westerns, and occult novels, he decided to return to mainstream literary fiction that he had written in graduate school. Because he’d already achieved some fame as a mystery writer, he decided to write his new novel under the name Laramie Dunaway. The novel, Hungry Women, was written from the points of view of four women friends. It was published by Warner Books without anyone at the publishing house knowing Obstfeld was a man. The novel went on to great success, being published internationally. Laramie Dunaway published two more novels before informing Warner of his gender. The publisher decided to publish Obstfeld’s next novel, Earth Angel, under his real name.
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April 16, 2019
Is it you or is it me .
A good read I enjoyed this book , it could be a bit long winded in places and made you wonder where it was going but in the end it got there something a bit different with romance thrown in .
A good read I enjoyed this book , it could be a bit long winded in places and made you wonder where it was going but in the end it got there something a bit different with romance thrown in .
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