Rachel West and the Fallen Starlet

Rachel West and the Fallen StarletCelebrity gossip can cut to the quick, but when it turns deadly its up to an aspiring reporter and her quirky neighbors to close the case in the first of a witty and nostalgic new mystery series. Baby doll top, gladiator sandals, and fully loaded iPod at the ready: its 2008 in Los Angeles, and Rachel West is a little less starry eyed than your average ingenue. Copyediting a celeb gossip rag isn't the glossy entertainment journalism Rachel thought she

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and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions—including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery

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