Gaga

By Leslie Tall Manning

Monty is ready to rock. Funny thing is, she doesn't know it yet!

When her husband releases her from a stagnant marriage, forty-five-but-looks-thirty Monica Reese Taylor, freelance writer for Home & Goddess Magazine, gets the career opportunity of a lifetime. All she has to do is leave her daughter behind, change her name, dress like a crazed groupie, and for one month follow a comeback rock band as they tour the eastern United States.

But that's not all: Monty has to spend time with the famous lead guitarist in order to get her story. A hot musician whose poster she kissed every night in her bedroom back in the eighties!

With her undisclosed agenda well hidden beneath Aqua Net, Maybelline, and leather, Monty plays the part of groupie with finesse, never suspecting that her rocker crush has a few tight-lipped secrets of his own…secrets that make hers seem like child's play… secrets that could change Monty's life forever.

This is the surprisingly fresh story of a coming-of-middle-age woman who believes that pretending to be someone else isn't the best way to discover who she really is.

Or is it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leslie Tall Manning
• Release date: May 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9780996130615

Leslie Tall Manning

Leslie Tall Manning is an award-winning novelist who loves writing about grown-ups who crave change and often discover it in ways they never expected (KNOCK ON WOOD, MAGGIE's DREAM, and GAGA). She also writes about teenagers who believe in independence, often stumbling into it headfirst (RULES OF FALLING, UPSIDE DOWN IN A LAURA INGALLS TOWN, and I AM ELEPHANT, I AM BUTTERFLY). As a private English tutor and writing specialist, Ms. Manning spends her evenings working with students of all ages and her days working on her own writing projects. When she isn't clacking away at the computer keys or conducting research for her books, she loves traveling with her artist husband or strolling along the river in her sweet Southern town. She is proudly represented by the TriadaUS Literary Agency. Partial list of Awards: Indie Brag Award Firebird First Place Book Award Sarton Women's Literary Award NC Author Project Award Library Journal Self-e Selection Taleflick Pick Taleflick Road to Development Finalist Story Monsters Certificate of Excellence William Faulkner Words and Wisdom Finalist International Book Award Finalist Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist