Chapter titles blare like the headlines of inky tabloids (“Killer Starlet Refuses to Shack Up with Guardian”), and Pagan’s trousseau is peppered with designer labels such as Chanel, evoking a bygone era of glamour and sophistication. Berry’s (the Otherkin series) noirish writing blends the blinding spotlight of Hollywood, the sexy world of espionage, and a smattering of real-life events and figures to create a fast-paced spy thriller. The film shoot lands 17-year-old Pagan-a struggling alcoholic who killed her father and sister in a drunk-driving wreck after her mother committed suicide-in Berlin, the city of her mother’s birth, where she seeks clues to her past while untangling a nefarious political plot unfolding in troubled 1960s Germany. But if anyone can take on a divided city, a scheming guardian and the criticism of a world that once adored her, it's the notorious Pagan Jones.Fallen starlet Pagan Jones has a chance at redemption when a mysterious film studio flack springs her from reform school with another shot at stardom. The offer's too good to be true, Berlin's in turmoil and Devin Black knows way too much about her-there's definitely something fishy going on. If Pagan's going to do it, she has to decide fast-and she has to agree to a court-appointed "guardian," the handsome yet infuriating Devin, who's too young, too smooth, too sophisticated to be some studio flack. The shoot starts in West Berlin in just three days.
Pagan will be released from juvenile detention if she accepts a juicy role in a comedy directed by award-winning director Bennie Wexler. Pagan's old agent shows up with a mysterious studio executive, Devin Black, and an offer. Nine months later, she's stuck in the Lighthouse Reformatory for Wayward Girls and tortured by her guilt-not to mention the sadistic Miss Edwards, who takes special delight in humiliating the once-great Pagan Jones.īut all of that is about to change. Pagan was behind the wheel and driving drunk.
Pagan Jones went from America's sweetheart to fallen angel in one fateful night in 1960: the night a car accident killed her whole family.
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