Perfect Escape (Book 4)
One person’s perfect escape is another’s
perfect hell.
In this
coming-of-age story, teen singing sensation Leighann DaCosta tries to find out
who she is without her music career. A career that has been part of her life
since before the age of ten. When Leighann’s estranged father enters her life,
she is caught up in a tug-of-war between both parents. Does she trust the man
who abandoned her as a baby, or a mother who is losing her mind?
When heartthrob
Zax Banovic is assigned to tutor Leighann, he provides her with the perfect
escape from the madness in her life. Enter Kristin Newman, Zax’s super-hot,
sickeningly perfect, tennis-pro girlfriend, who dampens any chance Leighann has
with him.
After the
unthinkable happens, Leighann’s world is shattered, causing her to shut
everyone out. Unable to cope, Leighann accepts help from her frenemy, but will
the help she accept come with a hefty price?
Seventeen-year-old Zax Banovic was
tall, gorgeous and smelled like citrus with a hint of musk. His sandy blond
hair, mesmerizing blue eyes, and kissable lips complemented his athletic body
perfectly. Leighann DaCosta, like many other girls at Westwood Academy, got an
eyeful when he ran out of the boys’ locker room in his underwear chasing some
girl down the halls of Westwood Academy. Leighann blushed when she saw his
ripped abs, tight ass and generous package filling out his heather gray CK
briefs. Since then, he frequented her dreams a million times, but instead of
chasing after another girl, he ran to her,
pinned her up against the lockers and
ravaged her.
In reality, Zax represented the
other half of Westwood Academy's super couple…
Kristin (The Bod) Newman was the
lust object of every boy at Westwood Academy. She was the school's tennis champ
and well on her way to going pro. Girls hated her, not because of her killer legs
or the way she rocked her tennis outfits, but because she was dating Zax
Banovic. They were the Brad Pit and Jennifer Aniston (pre-Angelina) of Westwood
Academy. Together they were known as ZaxTin. Together, Zax and Kristin were
sickeningly perfect. They walked the halls of Westwood Academy cooing at each
other, totally wrapped up in their own universe.
Zax was the first boy who had taken
Leighann out on a date. She was so giddy with excitement that she didn't
realize that he'd only ask her out to make Kristin jealous. Their second date
(pre-Kristin) was cleverly orchestrated by Zax's bratty sister, Adriana, who
used Leighann's crush on him as a bargaining chip.
Leighann opened her locker and
glanced at the locker next to hers. The locker, which now stood vacant, once
belonged to Adriana Banovic. Despite her prickly personality, Leighann missed
her, and the school wasn't the same since she'd gotten expelled, or
‘transferred’ as they were calling it. Adriana was interesting to watch, she
had a way of twisting things to make it work in her favor no matter how wrong
it was. Leighann admired her confidence and fearlessness as much as she admired
her style risks. Adriana wore what she wanted, when she wanted, and however she
wanted. Her style was copied by several imitators that had popped up since her
expulsion ‘transfer’. The students of Westwood Academy seemed to have a weird
love-hate obsession with her. Even though they missed her, no one ever dared
come out and admit it.
When the bell to Math class rang,
Leighann's stomach churned. She hated math and failed every test that she’d
been given. She desperately needed help, but was too ashamed to ask. When Mr.
Wells, the Math teacher, returned her test results, once again he asked to see
her after class. Leighann was used to their talks, and while Mr. Wells did his
best to help her with extra lessons, it took too much of his time. This time he
presented her with a possible solution; the Give Back Program. He explained
that the graduating seniors of Westwood Academy who excelled in a particular
subject would volunteer to tutor juniors who were struggling in their area of
expertise. The program had a 100 percent success rate, and he believed that the
success was because students learned better from their peers.
"The list of juniors waiting
to get in the program is very long, and we have more juniors waiting to get in
than seniors willing to tutor."
"What are my chances of
getting in?" Leighann asked hopefully.
"You're in," Mr. Wells
replied happily. He had already enrolled her, knowing that she wouldn’t object.
He suspected that she wanted to do well.
Leighann was thrilled. She thanked
him profusely and received instructions to meet her tutor at the east campus
library after school.
Leighann waited outside of the
library, where the other juniors were gathered. One by one they paired off with
their respective tutors and disappeared. She prayed that her tutor would be
patient and wouldn't make fun of her because she was a slow learner. Leighann
often wondered if she had a learning disability. All her life she’d had to fit
her academic schedule around her music career, and this was her first foray
into institutionalized education.
At the age of ten, Leighann won her
first Grammy, and since then, she’d had a career that most fifteen-year-old
girls would kill for. But she wasn’t happy and longed for a life outside of
stardom. With the support of her sister/confidante, she resigned from the music
business at the height of her career and faced scathing backlash from the press,
the record label, disappointed fans and especially her mother/manager.
Leighann’s quest for a normal life
began when she moved to California to live with her sister, L’Wren. She
enrolled in Westwood Academy of Higher Learning, the Rolls Royce of high
schools in California and possibly the country. Her father was an alumni, and
recently she’d found out that her mother was as well—even though her mother
never graduated. Leighann was determined to graduate and possibly go on to
college like L’Wren. The thought of that excited her, but she doubted herself.
What if she couldn’t cut it? What if all she could do was sing and play
instruments? Could she go back to the industry that she’d shut the door on? The
thought of that sent shivers down her spine.
Almost twenty minutes had passed,
and all the tutors and tutees were paired up. Leighann began to wonder if she
had been stood up by her tutor. What if her tutor had found out that they were
assigned to her and opted for someone else? Leighann's heart sank. She wanted
to prove to her mother that she was good at something other than singing and
performing. Her mother had beaten it into her brain that she would never amount
to anything other than a singer, and Leighann began to wonder if she was right.
Maybe she should drop out of school and beg the record label for another
chance. Her songs were still on the charts, and maybe it wasn't too late.
Leighann left the library disappointed.
"LD!" she heard a
familiar voice call out, and footsteps running behind her. She froze; only one
person on the planet called her LD.
Oh
God, please don't let it be … she prayed, then turned around.
"Sorry I'm late. Basketball
practice went a little long," Zax apologized.
His eyes … those eyes …
mesmerizing, seducing, enticing … pulled her in.
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Gillian Felix was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She grew up watching night time soap operas by Aaron Spelling with her mother. That’s where her obsession with rich, powerful and devious characters were born. After repeatedly seeing Mr. Spelling’s name on the screen night after night, Gillian knew she wanted to be an Aaron Spelling, before she knew that Aaron Spelling was actually a person.
Gillian pursued drama in high school although it was not taught as a “serious subject”. When asked what career she wanted to pursue after graduation, she told her guidance counselor that she wanted to be an actress, and was told that acting is not a “real job”.
When Gillian moved to the US in 1998, she landed an internship with Spotlight On Theater in New York City, where she learned stage managing, casting and the technical aspect of running a production. Later she branched out into film, and fell in love with the behind the scenes action of film and theatre production. She traded acting and her “real job” for a career in film and theater production. Gillian continued writing novels and scripts but kept them to herself.
When not writing, Gillian can be found volunteering at the New Mexico Children’s Grief Center or hiking the many mountains that surround New Mexico. Gillian can easily get lost in a parking lot and considers herself directionally challenged. She is always grateful for the people she hikes with, because without them she’d be left roaming the mountains like a lost mountain goat.
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