Daring to live life as a full time writer, with or without success.
Description: Anna is a runaway girl disguised as a boy. After she nearly thwarts a kidnapping, she is offered a job in the royal stables. Now surrounded by horses and the intrigues of the court, she has the time of her life. But this is Anna's only chance at adventure. She finds the hero admirable but boring, and the villain is both dead wrong and a lot of fun. Whose example should she follow?
Description: The fictional world of New Acton is on the verge of rebellion, and so is Mary Alwyn, the unfaithful wife of a rebel. But when she betrays her lover for the revolution, her husband holds her up as a hero, labeling her The Whore of Freedom both in public and in print. This becomes Mary's scarlet letter. If she's going to live down the first part of that name, she'll have to live up to the second. She becomes a spy, as bold as her reputation. But she'll never be free until she returns to face her past. (Note: the subject matter of this novel is mature, and while the style is not explicit, it does contain some intense scenes and material not suited for children.)"You'd think somebody would speak English," said Lundgren. "It's not like we've got a whole Chinatown here."
"I speak English."
They turned to see that George Starling had followed Rosie into the building.
"I said you could go home," said Rosie.
"It's a long walk, seeing as my car is still by Ms. Marquette's house," he said, and then he turned to the woman and spoke to her in another language. The woman replied cautiously.
"You speak Chinese?" said Lundgren.
"I do," said Starling. "But she doesn't. Fortunately I also speak Vietnamese."
"Forget it," he said. Except he didn't use the word forget, but another word that starts with the same letter which you can't say twice in a movie without getting an R-rating.
