ALSO BY ELAINE MARGOLIS
SOMETHING HIDDEN - Stories
SOMETHING HIDDEN - A diverse collection, with many subjects, settings and ideas. TWO FOR ONE, examines a love deeply felt but unspoken until too late with a horse race at the finish. INTANGIBLES, in which construction of a house addition becomes a hostile, possibly lethal event. YNEZ AT THE ROLLER DOME DISCO, a story of growing up, a small frightened boy and a giant woman. THE FRITZ AND KERI SHOW, with a mysterious artist couple and a gallery owner whose two-man show for the couple leads to an unexpected denouement. THE DRAGON BOX, in which an elderly traveler finds her past in a Bangkok curio shop. A BIKER’S REQUIEM, a story of regret, rebellion, and ultimately resignation. THE EXCHANGE - a woman realizes too late not to wish for something impossible after the wish is granted. VIBES, a story of loneliness, connections and chance encounters. DENIZENS, passion and betrayal on Melrose Avenue. THE CHARM, where spiders spin webs around the life of a girl who waits. SOMETHING HIDDEN, a mime in the Paris street, a kind stranger and a frightening revelation. THE CRYSTAL CAFÉ, a little girl dreams of her father, and witnesses a horrible crime. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WAVE, a story of discontent, a hint of myth and a wave that washes over everything.
ISBN: 978-0-9823002-7-5
Published by The Peppertree Press
Available at: www.peppertreepublishing.com; www.amazon.com; www.barnesandnoble.com; www.borders.com
PULSE – A Novel
PULSE – A tale of greed and amour and high finance on the world stage, as players vie for control of this unique perfume.
Mona Burbank, international film star, owns the formula for PULSE, a rare perfume with a secret time release. It was given to her in Cannes ten years before by Jean-Pierre Delain, a chemist with whom she had a brief affair. Swifty Sam McDonald cajoles the secret of PULSE from Mona and convinces her to let him find financing to manufacture and market it. He contacts Mark LaSalle, Chicago investment counselor, burned by Swifty in past dealings, but lured by his glowing profit picture. Eldon Howard, a major power, signs on too, with a private agenda and big financial problems. His wife Adele is a bizarre sidebar. Janna Thurwood, Mark’s live-in lover, is attracted to Swifty, and positions herself to be a player in the PULSE deal.
Intermingled with high romance and drama in major world capitals, are Eldon Howard’s lawsuit to take over PULSE, the underhanded tactics of Eldon and both sets of lawyers, and Swifty turning from villain to hero in Mark’s mind. Mark’s Uncle Mort offers another bizarre twist giving advice from beyond the grave. At the beginning and end, a mysterious jogger lures Mark into following her, luring him like the scent of PULSE.
ISBN: 0-595-13286-3
Published by IUniverse
Available at: www.iuniverse.com; www.amazon.com; www.barnesandnoble.com; borders.com