Genuine Lies (1998) (edit title/settings)

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• Eve Benedict: Sixty-seven years old and a Hollywood legend. After living a full, satisfying and often controversial life, including four husbands and four divorces, Eve thinks it is time to let the world know about her life. She contracts Julia to write it for her, against the wishes of her step-son Paul, who she fell in love with when he was ten - the son of her second husband
• Paul Rory Winthrop: Step-son to Eve Benedict. Son of two incredibly successful and talented actors who hate each other. Ferried between London and L.A. as a child, and fell in love with Eve, one of his father's wives and the only one she had a true friendship with
• Miss Julia Summers: Heroine; biographer. Single mother from the age of eighteen, adopted child of two successful lawyers and an orphan from her early twenties. Has been asked by the Hollywood legend Eve Benedict to write her biography This description contains a spoiler.
• Brandon Summers: Julia's ten year old son. Clever, shy, loves basketball
• Dorothy Travers: Eve's housekeeper. Anthony Kincade's first wife. Has a son by him who's mentally challenged
• CeeCee McKenna: Travers' niece. Works at Eve's house cleaning; wants to be a fashion designer
• Drake Morrison: One of Eve's only blood relatives - son of her older sister Ada. Works as Eve's press manager. Likes to gamble
• Michael Torrent: Eve's first husband; an actor
• Rory Winthrop: The only husband Eve has remained on good terms with; on his fifth wife. An actor, currently in London. A distant father to Paul. Never good with fidelity - one of the reasons for his divorce from Eve
• Anthony Kincade: First married to Travers, Tony and Eve were married for nearly five years before a very quiet divorce
• Nina Soloman: Eve's personal assistant. Eve took in Nina after a very tragic and brutal ordeal, and Nina has been with her since
• Victor Flannigan: Actor, trapped in an unhappy marriage
• Lyle Johnson: Eve's chauffeur. Thinks he is too good-looking for his own good
• Fritz: Eve's personal trainer
• Gloria Dubarry: One of Eve's closest friends. Earned a reputation in Hollywood for being the good girl
• Michael Delrickio: Dated Eve briefly; has contacts with the mafia
• Charlotte Miller: Eve's rival in Hollywood; the two never have a good word to say about each other. Married Charlie Gray after Eve dumped him.
• Charlie Gray: The man who introduced Eve into Hollywood. Fell in love with her, and committed suicide after she married Michael Torrent, a longtime friend
• Dustin McKenna: CeeCee's younger brother. Becomes firm friends with Brandon
• Margaret 'Maggie' Castle: Eve's agent
• Lily Teasbury: Rory's fifth wife and perhaps the only marriage that will last
• Damien Priest: A tennis player and Eve's fourth husband won Wimbledon a Tennis title
• Joseph: Gate guard at Eve's mansion
• Anna del Rio: Costume designer; has worked many times with Eve
• Peter Jackson: Actor, cast as the male lead in the new project Eve is working on; would be one of her lovers

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• “When you reach for the stars, Eve, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.”

  Charlie Gray

• “Even when one belongs to a man, one must be one's own woman. However much you love him, or come to love him, hold on to yourself.”

  Eve Benedict

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Hollywood: a city in Calilfornia
• Connecticut
• California: Where the city of Hollywood is based in.

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nora Roberts (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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Profanity. Sexual content.

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• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Roberts, Nora
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Romantic Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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