Silk Songbird

About the Book

Carol McDonald, a delightfully exotic and sensual young woman, has settled into her part time TV weekend news anchor job in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has outstanding musical singing talent but after graduating from Northwestern was unable to crack the music industry. After starting as a weather bunny for an Illinois TV station she has moved to Pittsburgh and is gradually moving up in her new job.
After an intriguing set of circumstance she meets Tom O’Donell, an All Pro Steeler wide receiver who lives in Carol’s condo complex.
They become friends and Carol learns that Tom is also an accomplished musician, singer and song writer. They begin performing for local fund raisers and charities and become lovers.
Tom has also been participating in tennis and golf celebrity charity events and through contacts in these events has become acquainted with people in the music and entertainment industry.
Tom and Carol make a music video and send it off to the star of a late night talk show. The talk show host invites them to perform on his show and they are a huge hit.
Personal managers, agents and representatives of major recording companies bid to represent them. With the help of the talk show host they sign with a personal manager and hire an entertainment lawyer to negotiate a contract with Moonbeam Records, a major record producing company. Their lawyer also negotiates a contract with a management company and it’s representative Jules Branson. Branson also helps Tom and Carol with obtaining the services of a theatrical agent and business manager.
Carol and Tom record an album and go on tour to promote their new album. It is a hit and goes platinum in a month. Carol is ecstatic. Her dreams of being a performing artist have come true. All the work and practice has paid off.
When football preseason training starts Tom has to leave the tour. He does dedicate all his available free time to be with Carol. Carol is lonely and exhausted by the continuos activity required by the tour but is carried by her love of entertaining and her new fans.
The success of Carol and Tom draws the attention of Allied Entertainment, an unorthodox “connected” company. Allied has entered the entertainment business and by nefarious scheming has managed to purchase TV and Radio stations, talent agencies, and print media. The source of their financing is hidden by dummy off shore corporations. Allied representatives intimidate the family of the owner of Moonbeam Records and then take over the company. The new owners immediately try to negotiate a new contract with Tom and Carol that would essentially provide most of the income from their efforts to the company.
Tom and Carol refuse to sign a new contract. While Tom is away playing for the Steelers, Carol is pressured into attending a movie premier with the male star of the movie. Carol doesn’t want to attend since the star was her lover while she was at Northwestern and had left for Hollywood without saying goodbye.
Carol reluctantly agrees, after strong pressure from Moonbeam Records, to attend the premier. After the premier she unwillingly attends a party in the home of the movie producer. She wakes up the morning after the premier party in a strange bedroom, very ill. The owner of the house advises her that she had passed out the night before and sends her home in a cab.
Tom is seriously injured in a game and is forced to retire from football and joins Carol in Los Angeles.
The new owners of Moonbeam Records continue to harass and threaten them, attempting to force them to sign a new contract. When they refuse they receive pictures of Carol in bed with another woman. Carol is totally demoralized by the pictures and the results they will have on her family, friends and fans if they are published. She seriously considers dropping out of the industry that she loves.
Instead of quitting they decide to fig

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