Butterfly Wings

About the Book

Mag Cross rigidly observes two taboos: Don’t go back to modeling in any form; and don’t get involved with a man who promises love and immortality, then nearly kills you.

Enter a mediocre salesman, mental gamesman and brilliant artist. Serge Monarch flaunts all taboos in the search for his artistic and personal vision of perfect beauty. Unfortunately for Mag, he decides she’s it. He ardently pursues her, as an objet d’art and an object of desire. With him he brings all the temptations and follies of her past: modeling, sex, mental games, mystery, illusions, even love. Slowly Mag drives herself to desperation and her former self-destruction. Serge, caught between his love for Mag and his insatiable desire for perfection, relentlessly tries to remake her into his ideal. Mag must survive, must have his love. If she wins, she might sacrifice everything, but if she loses, she and Serge will live in a hell of their own making.

About the Author

Kristin Johnson graduated via the writing program route (University of Michigan Creative Writing BA 1994, University of Southern California Master of Professional Writing Program 1999). She is a published short story writer (Southern California Anthology), a journalist, a Web writer, a screenwriter, a writer of celebratory poems, and a ghostwriter who composes autobiographies.