Christine Anthony is a cellist who wants nothing more than to play with a major symphony orchestra. Until then, she works in a clothing boutique and spends her weekends playing with a string quartet at a museum.<br><br>When a stylish, rich woman named Car Weldon asks Chris to deliver a purchase to her, Chris finds the world she knows thrown into a spin. Suddenly she’s doing things that would have scandalized her a few weeks previous. When Car takes her to St. Lucia on vacation, she meets new friends and a booking agent who offers her a job that changes her life.<br><br>And when she draws the attention of a well-known gossip columnist and a handsome TV actor, Chris suddenly has a fame she isn’t ready for. With the right choices, her cello could take her more places than she ever imagined ... but what must she leave behind?

All the Right Strings

I headed for the ladies room. That had been a longer session than I’d expected.


When I came back out, the cup of coffee and a sandwich with a packet of mustard was waiting for me on a little table that had been placed beside the chair. There was also a robe so I wouldn’t get the shirt dirty.


The head of the make-up crew, Joyce, also came up to me as I was sitting there chewing the last of my sandwich. I had just one bite left, so I popped it into my mouth.


“Let me check your eye make-up,” she said. “It looks a little smudged on the left.”


So, I was checked, rechecked, redone, and inspected again.


“You know, you have such a natural beauty,” Joyce said. “It isn’t hard to make you look pretty. Some models they send me take three hours just to look passable.”


Chapter 38