High Diamonds

About the Book

Few of us are dealt life? winning hand. But one can stay in the game long enough by playing with a Minor suit. Win the game by learning to set Trumps. That? the way it is in Marlboro Country, a land of high finance, non-stop partying, megadeals and penthouse scandal. Stockbrokers, computer jockeys, oil and gas moguls, and sugar daddies on the prowl cleverly package themselves, readying for a winner-take-all finish.

The glittering life among Denver? skyscrapers brings unexpected side trips as they hurdle around the bases of life. They?e been caught on Second but looking for more. Here everybody? sharp and trying to ?teal?Third. Get that far, you need someone to hit you Home. If not, you?e stranded. Inning over. Game over.

Then there? Angela McMillan. She? running with the fast crowd and balanced precariously between her ?op producer?career and her secret at home? powerful husband with exotic needs. And he wants her money too.

If money turns you on, you?l love to run with this crowd. They?e making lots of cash and spending it fast. But pray to God and lock your door. A shot in the night changes the game completely.

About the Author

The author, Margaret Castle, has led a life at least as adventuresome as her lead character Angela McMillan. In fact, McMillan is an old family name, a Mulatto family traceable all the way back to Algeria eight generations ago. With an undergraduate degree in philosophy, at least half her published work relates to a nontheistic approach to understanding all the different kinds of people one must deal with to have the best of everything.

On three continents she has married, raised a family, succeeded in a career, and lived to tell about it. The second volume of this trilogy is titled High Tails (pun intended). The current volume reveals what it's like to be a Top Producer with a secret—victim of a powerful husband with exotic tastes. The action is nonstop, as rapid fire as the adventures the lady lived. The characters are taken from the glittering skyscrapers of Denver, where she lived and worked, to the twisted unemployed in the ski towns around Aspen, Colorado.

Honing her writing skills at The New York Times Media Co., the author wrote and produced sixty film scripts before dropping out of New York to pursue a 5-state tennis career. It was then that she began to collect the sites and personalities that people her fiction world.

In 1984, Castle was named Top Business Graduate by Denver Business Magazine when she aced a field of 15 candidates for that distinction during her final year of the MBA degree at the University of Denver. Thus began her climb through the top of city center banks and the free-wheeling world of penny stocks. After Black Monday, when the whole market nose-dived, taking brokers and investors alike into crash mode, she resurfaced on the inside of Wall Street—buying and dealing Big Board stocks. The U-turn in this career gave her entrée to the beef barons and their mistresses, the topless bars and Petroleum club dining rooms of The Marlboro Man himself.

Married now to an Aspen drop-out she describes as James Bond-on-the-Lam, Ms. Castle lives in a tree house on the gold coast of Florida.