“Model Citizens: Riding For A Fall” is a romantic thriller about two models who blackmail their way to the top in Los Angeles. They’ve got it made until the bad boy karma catches up with them.
Overnight, France’s Angela Durand and the blonde Californian Joanne Hart become Super Models and global celebrities.
The glamorous LA high life is at their fingertips. Multi-million-dollar modelling contracts with the biggest names in fashion. Rich and famous lovers. Private jet travel. The best manager in the business.
What could possibly go wrong?
Plenty, including Joanne’s boyfriend who is the greatest footballer in American history and a psychopath. As Brett Farrell’s life runs off the rails in the week before Super Bowl 2009, his deranged behaviour threatens to destroy Joanne and Angela.
Set in the bright lights world of haute couture fashion, where nothing is ever quite what it appears to be, will the love and smarts of Model Citizens Modelling Agency owner Reggie Sinatra be enough to save his star clients from the dark side?
A wild tale of blind ambition, the power of love, glamorous frocks and the deadly consequences of living like candles in the wind, Model Citizens is the unforgettable first novel from Henry Pepper, a descendant of British novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott.
“Model Citizens is fiction based on true stories,” Henry explained. “While researching the book, I met a number of famous models in London, New York and Paris who were kind enough to tell me about what really goes on behind the scenes in fashion.”
The Model Citizens: Riding For a Fall paperback, published on November 28 2013, is distributed globally by Ingram Books.
