Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Romance / Action & Adventure
  • Language:English
  • Pages:308
  • eBook ISBN:9798350985085

Stand Like A Dancer

By Gillette Edmunds

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Overview


Talented dancer and journalist Lydia falls in and out of love with basketball star Mark, leading to a tumultuous relationship filled with passion and addiction. Their story winds through a fabulously successful dance club, personal traumas, addiction recoveries, a dramatic cliffhanger, a new marriage and a spiritual resolution.
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Description


Lydia, a brilliant dancer and journalist, embarks on a tumultuous romance with basketball player Mark at Cal, only to leave him for Broadway. When her theater dreams fail, she returns to Mark, reigniting their intense, substance-fueled relationship. As Lydia uncovers painful truths about her past, she and Mark crash in Lake Tahoe, then rise to fame and fortune, when a fiery act of vengeance nearly destroys their lives. They disintegrate in a whirlwind of inebriation, impoverishment, pregnancy, loss of life, desertion, spirit dance, sobriety, Broadway success and a new age reunion.
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About The Author


Gillette Edmunds is the author of three novels and four nonfiction books.  Stand Like a Dancer is Gillette's third novel.  A fourth novel, The Adventures of Jill and Becca, derived from Stand Like a Dancer, is expected late 2025.  Tourists off the Tour, Gillette Edmunds’ second novel, originally published in 2023 solely as an eBook, will be released as a print book summer, 2025.  Gillette began work on Tourist off the Tour in 1984 and then set it aside until 2001.  After working on it a few months, he resumed writing nonfiction, finally returning to Tourists in 2021. His first novel, We Were, was published in early 2021. Stand Like a Dancer, Gillette’s third novel was published in early 2025.  After a successful career in money management, Gillette writes novels derived from his personal experiences including extensive travel and chaotic, comical relationships. Gillette has a BA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and was a ghost writer in 1980-81. Gillette is married and has three adult children and one grandchild. He had a successful career as a non-fiction writer. Gillette is the author of How to Retire Early and Live Well with Less Than a Million Dollars (Adams Media, 2000), Comfort Zone Investing (Career Press, 2002), REITs for the New Decade (various e-book web publishers, 2001), Retire on the House (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) and many articles. How to Retire Early sold more than 85,000 copies.

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