Hot Mess [Paperback]

The final book in the rags-to-riches-to-rags trilogy that reads like an E! True Hollywood Story.Ed Decter is a producer, director, and writer. Along with his writing partner John J. Strauss, Ed wroteThere's Something about Mary, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, The Santa Clause 2andThe Santa Clause 3as well as many other screenplays. During his years in show business Ed has auditioned, hired, and fired thousands of actors and actresses just like Chloe Gamble. Ed lives in Los Angeles with his family.

Laura J. Burns has written more than thirty books for teens and kids, and hopes to write at least thirty more. She lives in California with her husband and kids.chapter one

Police Report, July 5

Interview with Nika Mays of 8455 Fountain Ave., West Hollywood. Employed by the Virtuoso Artists Agency. Detective Matt Lopez interrogating.

Lopez: Can you describe your relationship with Chloe Gamble, please?

Mays: I’m her agent. I was, I mean.

Lopez: Were you familiar with her family … her mother, Earlene Gamble, and …

Mays: Travis, her twin brother. Yes, I knew Early and Travis.

Lopez: And the father, Lonnie Gamble?

Mays: I knew the rest of the family first. But I met Lonnie when he arrived in Los Angeles—

Lopez: From Texas?

Mays: I don’t know. We weren’t exactly making how-was-your-trip small talk. Chloe and Trav were not happy to see him. I assume he came from Texas. The Gambles were from a town called Spurlock, Texas.

Lopez: And you met Lonnie Gamble when?

Mays: I met him at Chloe and Travis’s house, the same day everyone else met him.

Lopez: Who do you mean?

Mays: We were all there trying to talk sense into Chloe. It was me, Sean Piper—he was her lawyer. Um, Amanda Pierce and Jude Morgan—those were Chloe’s friends who worked on her TV show …

Lopez:Cover Band?