The Image Maker

THE IMAGE MAKER (FAME & INFAMY, Book 1)

She makes famous men look untouchable.

He makes her forget how dangerous that is.

Isla Ryder is paid to control the story. In Manhattan and Hollywood, she turns scandal into strategy, ambition into art, and disastrous men into legends worth believing in. She knows how to read a room, soften a headline, bury a mistake, and keep herself at a safe distance from anything that might undo her.

Roman Lysander is Hollywood’s favorite beautiful disaster.

Brilliant, magnetic, and already half myth, Roman has built a career on charm, scandal, and a carefully curated façade that keeps the real man out of reach. Isla should know better than to look too long. Men like Roman are not love stories. They are liability, spectacle, and ruin dressed in a perfect face.

Then they collide.

Literally.

On a Malibu beach, running in opposite directions, Isla and Roman crash into each other hard enough to draw blood. What should be an accident becomes the beginning of a two-day unraveling: a professional challenge, a dangerous attraction, and a connection neither of them can explain, control, or safely ignore.

Roman needs a rebrand. Isla needs to keep her distance.

But the line between image and truth begins to blur. Isla sees the man beneath the mythology. Roman sees the woman behind the control. And what starts as strategy becomes something far more dangerous: fast, consuming, and impossible to undo.

Because in Hollywood, the story always belongs to someone.

Until love makes it personal.

The Image Maker begins Fame & Infamy, an addictive, emotionally intense one-couple saga about fame, power, secrets, obsession, and the kind of love that can make or destroy everything it touches.

Isla and Roman’s story continues across the FAME & INFAMY series and should be read in order.

Reading order:
The Image Maker ~ 1
The Image Breaker ~ 2
The Image Keeper ~ 3
The Image Taker ~ 4
The Image Pretender ~ 5
The Image Betrayer ~ 6
The Image Master ~ 7

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It could be said Katherine Owen has a penchant for angst, a little drama, and the unintentional complications of love. Owen believes this began early on when she won a poetry contest at fourteen and appears to be without end. Owen has an avid love of coffee, books, wine, and writing, but not necessarily in that order. Katherine Owen writes both Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction which includes her bestselling TRUTH IN LIES Series (a series despite despising 'series') beginning with "This Much Is True" and the second book, "The Truth About Air & Water" and the third book, Tell Me Something True. The TRUTH IN LIES series is fan-driven. Owen is aware fans want even more of Linc and Tally. She says, 'We will see...doesn't mean "no"; doesn't mean yes.'About Owen's fiction...this is NOT the light trope stuff. Owen travels a unique, writerly path and enjoys writing dark and angsty (a "non-word" she is fond of) emotional love stories. The author often warns readers to be prepared with time, tissues, wine, Advil or your drug of choice. And, as her most favored character, Lincoln Presley, would say, "Do what you must, Princess."Katherine is always writing... or is that thinking about writing?Owen lives in an old house near Seattle with her family, where she's working on her next book, like always, while her family wishes she would clean better and cook more often. Cinderella, she is not; and she constantly reminds them of this. Visit her website at www.katherineowen.net for novel updates and more about the day-to-day machinations of a writer's life, and because her website is awesomely stunning.OR connect with Owen on...www.facebook.com/KatherineOwenAuthor or twitter @KatherineOwen01 or catch her on Tumblr... http: //katherineowen.tumblr.com/Katherine Owen Writer of the dark, angsty love stuff (She means, stories)"I believe all I can do is inspire both my readers and myself in what I construe as reality in love and relationships. Someone has to capture the sad, emotional love stuff that often collides with fate. It might as well be me. Apparently, I am THAT writer." Katherine Owen