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Abigail Mangin

Abigail Mangin

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Vital Temptations: A Heart's Betrayal

Vital Temptations: A Heart's Betrayal

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<p>Dr. Bethany McNeal is living her dream as a pediatric resident in one of the most sought-after medical centers in Seattle. Beautiful and intelligent, she’s missing only one thing—love, which she put on hold to focus on her career after ending a tumultuous relationship. Everything changes when she meets Dr. Brent Anderson, a charming and handsome fellow resident. Despite her reservations, Bethany falls for Brent—hard. When she learns Brent is married several months into their relationship, she immediately breaks it off. After graduating residency and going their separate ways, Bethany tries to move on with another man—real estate broker and personal trainer Charles Blakely. But just when things get serious with Charles, she realizes she’s still in love with Brent, and she finds herself caught between the two men, facing a series of difficult decisions and harrowing events that will change her life forever. Will she be able to recover from the vital temptations that turned her perfect life upside down?</p>

Story Behind The Book

Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways. A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion’s biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend’s New York City mansion. This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil’s family fortune. They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies? In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.

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Kirkus Reviews

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Pacific Book Review

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Reviews

<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style.&quot; - <strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong>&quot;</p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">Beautifully packaged and true to its idealistic vision, Size Zero pierces the myths that perpetuate and protect an abusive, exploitative industry.&quot; - <strong>Foreword Reviews</strong></p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;A sharply perverse dark comedy set in the high fashion industry&quot; -<strong> IndieReader</strong></p> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">&quot;Size Zero is that kind of book that gets you off a reader's block moment.&quot; - <strong>Pacific Book Review (starred review)</strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:'baskerville-urw';font-size:17.25px;letter-spacing:.1725px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252);">“Size Zero is visceral and disturbing. The narrative exposes the dark underbelly of modeling, focusing on unethical practices, charlatans, mental and physical illnesses, and the abuse that young women face as they pursue celebrity. Elements of the novel are splashy and outré, distorting stereotypes of glitterati and their carefully guarded world.” <strong>- Foreword Reviews</strong></p>