DROWNED HOPES - THE NOVEL AND SCREENPLAY IN ONE VOLUME: Lost In Paradise: Ellen thought she'd hit bottom when her lover left her and the authorities in Jamaica closed her gallery and seized her paintings. She hoped to start a new life and career in South Florida. Instead she finds that her mother is in the throes of Alzheimer's and her powerful attorney brother is squeezing her small inheritance dry. When she tries to fight back, she strays into the web of one of the nastiest villains to step out of a cellblock. With death and humiliation staring her in the face and no one to help her, Ellen...