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Diva In the Details By James E. Shaw, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology California Southern University; Member, Panel of Experts The Los Angeles Superior Court This Rags to Riches All-American Story is Based on True Events THE DIVA IS IN THE DETAILS Every woman has, and is, a Diva. Candela McQueen is one smart, sexy, rich and gorgeous woman who re-invented herself, as every woman must, into a diva who is always contemporary—and always in control. Indeed, if Hollywood movie directors were to read this novel, The Diva Is In The Details, they might immediately give its protagonist, Candela, a fill-up-the-screen, centerpiece role as their response to the “No great roles in Hollywood for black women!” allegation that screen beauty Halle Berry hurled out, as part of her 2002 Academy Award acceptance speech that put the movie industry “on blast.” As the world’s top-selling novelist Janet Dailey states, most women throughout history have been able to work themselves out of most problems that would crush a man like a mountain. Candela McQueen is such a woman. Diva Candela McQueen is EVERY WOMAN. In this high-action, high-adventure “drama romantica”, Candela toils her way from rags to riches and becomes the Royal Highness of the TV talk-show circuit, a thunderous hit on the “Oprah” show who expertly, and from experience, discusses intimate partner abuse. Candela is the Hip Hop mega-star around whose erotically-sensual showers of hit songs the international “Great Dame Fan Club” is formed. Her multiple millions donated to charity each year make her an icon. When not touring and touching her fans with her music, she luxuriates in a mansion on her sprawling estate in Holmby Hills. The husband-and-wife actors who built the nation’s first black-owned hotel-and-casino, “The African Queen Resort Hotel,” pay her a seven-figure fee to do a command performance for the opening night of their unspeakably beauteous mecca. Yet, like millions of women everywhere, Candela’s past has a wrinkle or two that her good deeds have all but straightened out. From her dark past, and roaring into her life like a runaway train, is a person who burns for revenge and thinks Candela got ahead only because he was held behind prison bars. Divorcing her four no-account husbands was easy compared to facing this insanely-mad creature from her past, a one-man perfect storm boiling and fuming ever closer with each passing day. Unaware of her impending danger, Candela dedicates herself to pushing her already mega-stellar career, tries to keep romantic involvements at arms’ length, and struggles to raise her rebel of a daughter. But Cupid’s arrow comes straight at her in the form of an ex-cop whose treasonous, Mob-flirting ex-wife has made him as hard-shell and love-shy as Candela. Hired to be her bodyguard for her “African Queen Resort Hotel” spectacular, they strive to make themselves unlikable. When Candela’s daughter is kidnapped, they both realize the past has turned on them with a fury that will not be turned back. Their love grows and deepens. And, as terror strikes, he is as much rescued by her as she is protected by him. Their lives are in the balance and only love will keep them safe—and together.