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A Novel

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  • You
  • only
  • think
  • you
  • want
  • this
  • life
  • .
  • .
  • .Alex
  • Maxwell
  • is
  • planning
  • her
  • wedding
  • to
  • up-and
  • coming
  • music
  • artist
  • Birdie,
  • ghostwriting
  • video
  • vixen
  • Cleopatra
  • Wright’s
  • memoir,
  • and
  • she’s
  • just
  • been
  • assigned
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • the
  • year
  • by
  • her
  • editor
  • in
  • chief
  • at
  • a
  • major
  • music
  • industry
  • magazine—an
  • article
  • about
  • the
  • glamorous
  • lives
  • of
  • women
  • married
  • to
  • platinum-selling
  • hip-hop
  • artists.
  • Alex
  • has
  • been
  • interviewing
  • celebrities
  • and
  • hangers-on
  • long
  • enough
  • to
  • know
  • all
  • that
  • glitters
  • isn’t
  • gold,
  • so
  • she’s
  • determined
  • to
  • get
  • the
  • real
  • scoop.
  • Still,
  • it’s
  • not
  • going
  • to
  • be
  • easy
  • to
  • get
  • past
  • the
  • wives’
  • gilded
  • cages.
  • .
  • .Beth
  • Saddlebrook,
  • wife
  • of
  • aging
  • rapper
  • Z.
  • They
  • have
  • three
  • beautiful
  • boys
  • and
  • a
  • seemingly
  • endless
  • supply
  • of
  • cash.
  • But
  • Beth
  • spends
  • her
  • days
  • trying
  • to
  • keep
  • Z
  • off
  • drugs
  • and
  • fielding
  • calls
  • from
  • women
  • hollering
  • she’s
  • just
  • a
  • “small-town
  • white
  • bitch”
  • and
  • claiming
  • to
  • be
  • carrying
  • Z’s
  • baby.
  • Only
  • one
  • person
  • understands
  • what
  • she’s
  • going
  • through.
  • .
  • .Kipenzi
  • Hill,
  • multiplatinum-selling
  • R&B
  • artist
  • and
  • Beth’s
  • best
  • friend.
  • Her
  • relationship
  • with
  • rap
  • star
  • and
  • record
  • label
  • president
  • Jake
  • is
  • an
  • open
  • secret
  • in
  • the
  • industry.
  • She
  • knows
  • Jake
  • loves
  • her,
  • but
  • he’d
  • rather
  • break
  • up
  • than
  • publicly
  • acknowledge
  • it.
  • Now
  • she
  • has
  • learned
  • that
  • the
  • newest
  • (and
  • much
  • younger)
  • R&B
  • sensation
  • Bunny
  • has
  • been
  • signed
  • to
  • Jake’s
  • label.Josephine
  • Bennett,
  • wife
  • to
  • Jamaican
  • singer
  • and
  • überproducer
  • Ras
  • Bennett.
  • Josephine
  • doesn’t
  • just
  • want
  • to
  • spend
  • her
  • husband’s
  • money,
  • she
  • wants
  • to
  • contribute.
  • Her
  • fashion
  • company
  • is
  • finally
  • starting
  • to
  • get
  • media
  • attention
  • when
  • her
  • husband
  • admits
  • to
  • something
  • she’s
  • suspected
  • all
  • along—he’s
  • fallen
  • in
  • love
  • with
  • another
  • woman.Cleopatra
  • Wright,
  • every
  • man’s
  • dream
  • girl,
  • a
  • video
  • vixen
  • with
  • a
  • story
  • to
  • tell
  • and
  • scores
  • to
  • settle.
  • Cleo’s
  • got
  • that
  • thing
  • no
  • one
  • can
  • put
  • a
  • finger
  • on
  • and
  • no
  • man
  • (or
  • woman)
  • can
  • resist.
  • Some
  • would
  • call
  • her
  • evil
  • or
  • misguided
  • or
  • both,
  • but
  • Cleo
  • always
  • moves
  • with
  • a
  • purpose
  • and
  • she’ll
  • stop
  • at
  • nothing
  • to
  • get
  • what
  • she
  • wants.
  • .
  • .Alex
  • realizes
  • she
  • may
  • have
  • more
  • in
  • common
  • with
  • these
  • women
  • than
  • she’d
  • like.
  • What
  • if
  • this
  • is
  • a
  • glimpse
  • of
  • how
  • her
  • life
  • will
  • be
  • if
  • Birdie
  • finally
  • gets
  • signed
  • to
  • a
  • major
  • label?
  • Stuck
  • between
  • her
  • loyalty
  • to
  • this
  • newfound
  • sisterhood
  • and
  • her
  • obligation
  • to
  • write
  • the
  • truth,
  • Alex
  • is
  • forced
  • to
  • rethink
  • everything
  • she
  • knows
  • about
  • work,
  • friendship,
  • and love.
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