Personal Memoirs of William Byron Hillman. Starting with nothing but the clothes on his back. All about surviving a teenage marriage, building a career in the entertainment industry and searching adoption records for birth parents and family information. A crazy true story covering the journey of a lifetime all done The Hard Way. The art of paying forward and never giving up.

Hollywood was the perfect place to sort out the dysfunctional life of Rollie Kemp. He ran from a New York crime family instead of joining it. His wannabe wiseguy father stole from the hand that fed him, and they murdered him. His ex-wife wouldn't let go, his law career went up in smoke, and his attempt to join the LA PD was destroyed by a drunk driver. His explosive temper briefly delayed his acting career and made his few personal matters worse. The multifarious partnership with Drake Fargo was iffy at best. Fargo was the consummate Private Detective - the go-to guy all the studios and...

The call came late at night. "Rollie Kemp is still alive. Terminate him and do it now." Mistakes were unacceptable, only one was made. The California cops did them a favor and told the press they were dead. The evidence left little doubt a contract had been put out on them. Rollie Kemp and Drake Fargo, however, were still very much alive. A suggestion they get out of town until things cool off was taken seriously. They healed in South Carolina and then Florida. They met up with ex-CIA friends and tried to figure out who wanted them dead. There was an on-going crime family war, a hint of...

VERONIQUE and MURRAY She thought renting a husband for a year would cure her problems He applied for the job because his friends dared and bet he wouldn't have the guts The arrangement was for one year. The compensation spilled over the bank vault. He could keep his dog Harold, and she her cat Ava. They all moved in together and that's when things started to unravel. Murray had no baggage or anything else for that matter. Veronique came with freight so immense one could fill several warehouses with it. She had money, education, a great figure and looks over the rainbow. He was at best a...

Rollie Kemp is back All he has to do is find April. After April Bradberry's father was murdered in Hollywood California, and the police cleared her, she returned to her South Carolina home. Right after her arrival she disappeared, and Rollie Kemp was hired to find her. With his partner recuperating from a gunshot wound in Hawaii, Rollie took it upon himself to locate April. How dangerous could finding a missing person be? What started as a simple case rapidly developed into someone wanting him dead. It escalated when they shot at Rollie. That's when he got mad. Fighting back was part of his...

A decade old lie has Doug making frantic decisions. His out-of-control ego and rash behavior trigger heartbreak. A speeding train can't get him away fast enough to avoid disclosure. Jeopardizing a romantic marriage, writing career, his integrity, and every relationship known to man, he hires a feisty female lawyer with a ruthless reputation to crush the opposition. As the past tracks a cloud of deception, his overzealous misgivings and wit fail to entertain his wife or attorney; the dead-and-buried reveal truth and a bloodthirsty instinct to silence him. Responding to perpetual threats and...