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Passion, power, sex, betrayal, and seduction–it’s all in a day’s work.

Having escaped to Hollywood after catching her boyfriend in bed with her best friend, London stage actress Kate McPhee is offered a gig on the popular daytime television series Live for Tomorrow. As Devon Merrick–police detective, car crash victim, and love interest for at least two men–she knows all the secrets and sins pulsating in fictional Hope Canyon. But the real drama is off the set, where the soap is indeed slippery.

Enter Meredith Contini, the show’s power-wielding diva. Meredith has two rules: Know your place and Stay in it. Kate broke both on day one, which is why she suddenly found her character switching sexual orientation. That brilliant solution came from Daphne del Valle, the show’s barking-mad obsessive/compulsive producer, who drives herself and her actors to enthrall the audience. (“Sell the hurt. Sell the rage. Sell the hunger. Sell the looooooove.”)

As gay detective Devon Merrick, Kate is a smash. The show is a hit. Kate’s private life seems to be becoming something of a drama itself. Especially since everybody thinks she really is gay, which is a problem since she thinks the best cure for her real-life broken heart is to get a man into her bed. But who? Kirk, her sexy, tan, and talented leading man, is boffing Meredith. There’s Matt, the magician who makes her tea, but will her fourteen-hour days keep them from the promise of tangled sheets? And there’s Wyatt, her handsome new co-star, who Kate believes is the great love of her life. Except that he’s married, and his
wife, Christine, is Kate’s new makeup artist and the one sane friend she has made in Los Angeles.

As the line between television and reality blurs with increasing speed, tension tightens and passions surge. Does Wyatt want Kate as much as she wants him? Will Christine find out? Will Kate lose her new friend? Will Meredith finally have Kate fired? Will Kate ever get to “come out” as heterosexual on the set? Are her steamy kiss scenes fated to be only with beautiful women?

Emmy Award—winning actress Finola Hughes whips up a frothy, scathingly funny novel worthy of any afternoon time slot in this delicious romp that takes readers through the twists, turns, and dish that drive the madness that is daytime television.


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Stopped in 10 dots...
I thought this book was horrible.I was reading it on Kindle, so I can't give you a pg number, but I stopped reading it around the 5th chapter.I don't usually give up on a book, but did with this one.This story was a bit of a autobiography and not very entertaining.For writing about one's self, the author did not give a good insight into her character.The book was hard to read because the author kept going in and out of script.Like I said earlier in this review, I just had to give it up.A waste of $9.99.The real disappointment was that I am a fan of Hughes the actress and was expecting more.

I loved this!
Bravo! Soapsuds was such a delight. It is so much fun to read a book about soap operas. It has so many cliches about soap operas. Everything from the hunks that are required to take their shirts off to the constant recastings!
My favorite parts are when the diva of the show, Meredith Contini, is around. She represents many of the divas that have been on their shows form many years, for example, Susan Lucci or Deidre Hall. The scenes in which she is hysterical about her character being aged is a laugh riot. It reminded me of rumors about Susan Lucci and Sarah Michelle Gellar not getting along because AMC (All My Children) gave Erica a teenage daughter.

Great Book!
This book is so funny! I loved the book so much that I bought it on Audio CD also which is narrated by Finola Hughes. If you watch soaps you will love this book. Even if you do not watch soaps you'll love it because this book is well written, light, engaging and funny!

Such a disappointment
Oh my how I really wanted to like this book.I am a person that with a good storyline and great writing I could read a book in a day's time; it took me over a month to get through this book and I was on vacation for a week!!

I found it very difficult to follow and to keep track of the players when we are constantly waffling back and forth between real names and stage names.And I feel there were too many characters to keep track of but I guess that's just the way with a soap opera.

I also found the story to be quite depressing. I felt bad for the lead character but then she's going to turn around and do the exact same thing to her best friend?

Maybe I was not taking the book in the light it was intended, maybe I missed the boat but this one sank as far as I'm concerned.

Entertaining Read...
Soapsuds is an entertaining book which is basically about life on a soap opera.The main character; Kate, is on Live For Tomorrow dealing with all sorts of interesting people.She moved to LA after finding her boyfriend and best friend together.She's desperately trying to get over that and move on with her life.The book reminded me a lot of the movie Soapdish because it dealt with one main person and the main characters interactions with the other people on the show.I felt that at some times there were too many people in the story which made it hard to follow.Also, I wasn't crazy about the ending because I felt that it wasn't really thought out.Even though, it was an entertaining escape from reality. ... Read more

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Few children's classics can match the charm and originality of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, the unforgettable story of sullen, sulky Mary Lennox, "the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen." When a cholera epidemic leaves her as an orphan, Mary is sent to England to live with her reclusive uncle, Archibald Craven, at Misselthwaite Manor. Unloved and unloving, Mary wanders the desolate moors until one day she chances upon the door of a secret garden. What follows is one of the most beautiful tales of transformation in children's literature, as Mary her sickly and tyrannical cousin Colin and a peasant boy named Dickson secretly strive to make the garden bloom once more.

A unique blend of realism and magic, The Secret Garden remains a moving expression of every child's need to nurture and be nurtured—a story that has captured for all time the rare and enchanted world of childhood.


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This digital document is an article from Nonwovens Industry, published by Rodman Publishing on November 1, 2008. The length of the article is 769 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ATC acts out: well-known actress helps launch promotional campaign for line of allergen filtration products.(American Textile Co.)(Finola Hughes)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Nonwovens Industry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2008
Publisher: Rodman Publishing
Volume: 39Issue: 11Page: 78(2)

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