Coming Soon…
We were like dragonflies. We seemed to be suspended effortlessly in the air but in reality our wings were beating very, very fast. – Mae Murray
It’s the height of the roaring twenties and the fledgling movie industry is hurtling from Bohemian backwater to the slickly controlled powerhouse of the Golden age. As the horrors WWI begin to fade and the Depression looms on the horizon, the sun sets on the early days of the Wild West movie colony with its cacophony of chaotic creativity, excess and glorious debauchery. The dawn of the polished and controlled world of the studio system and the Motion Picture Code looms on the horizon, but for now we are in the dead of night: where hedonism dances with despair, skeletons peek out their closets and everybody makes it up as they go along.
Book One: Dragonflies
At the dawn of Hollywood, a wannabe actress impersonates a dead star in order to step into her career – but as her wildest dreams begin to come true, the star’s dangerous past appears to haunt her…
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble. – Talullah Bankhead
