Genre: Romance / Italian background

Originally printed in 1978.

Lights...Action...Camera...Love!

Beautiful Toni Aldridge had come to Rome hoping to get a job in an Italian film. But when she finally landed apart, it wasn't quite the one she had in mind. Yet with no prospects in sight and her money running out, Toni had to accept handsome movie-maker Bob Sanders' offer to become his "hired wife?”

Bob was trying to clinch a production deal with a wealthy eccentric who insisted on working only with married people. So Toni and Bob entered into a marriage of convenience that would end when Bob got his contract. But Toni soon realized that marrying Bob had been the biggest mistake in her life. For, to her dismay, she was rapidly falling in love with a man she could never truly claim as her own...

Transcribed by Kurt Brugel and Akiko K.

Scratchboard book cover illustration by Kurt Brugel