Does having the courage of your ambition inevitably mean losing your soul? Natalie Saladay is back in Hollywood, and now she wants it all: The power to make good movies. The love of a good man. And she'll risk just about anything in order to "give good Hollywood.

Fear of living can stunt your growth... until someone from your past turns up and reminds you it's never too late to become who you might have been... "An enthusiastic, passionate novel that's part romance, part adventure... Culler's novel refreshingly complements the romantic tension between Mira and Alejandro with mystery and a hefty amount of wit." KIRKUS REVIEW

In this memoir about an American family sticking together and finally coming apart in foreign lands during the Cold War years, Barbara Hyatt recounts how she was 28 years old when in 1958, she and her husband Pete Culler and their two young daughters Christine and Cynthia were transferred by his company to their first overseas assignment. Over the course of the next 12 years the family lived in Guatemala City during the anti-American riots; Tehran, Iran during the Shah's repressive reign; Sao Paulo, Brazil while its capital city of Brasilia was being built; Lima, Peru during the communist...