Dream on, dream on, teenage queen...

From her days as the seventeen-year-

old, beautiful, blonde Drum Major of

]onesboro High in Tennessee, Nicole

Miller knew what she wanted when she

grew up: a glamorous, creative advertis-

ing job in Los Angeles; a handsome, smart,

loving boyfriend; and the kind of life she

had always read about in magazines.

Dream on, teenage queen. When Nicole

Miller made it to L.A., what she got was

the cold shoulder from jealous fellow

workers at her agency, exploitation by

men without principle or conscience,

endless money worries, and a future that

looked as bleak and colorless as a bottle of

vodka--until she met Barton Thomas. The

Barron Thomas, of Barron Thomas Avia-

tion. The man who went from Vietnam

War casualty to anti-war leader at Yale

Law School to poverty lawyer to aviation

and real-estate mogul--all without rob-

bing anyone. Smart, funny, rich, devoted,

appreciative, he was everything a girl

could want in a man, except for that one

little thing. Barron was married to

Saundra Logan, devoted to her aswell

with mystic cords of memory and love

that lingered despite her descent into drug

addiction and despair.

This is a story of a triangle of the rich

and the beautiful, the kind and the cruel,

the hopeful and the lost, the addicted and