The Girl With Two Names: A Novel
by Gerard O'NeillPublish: Jun 19, 2015Book Overview
A novel about a self-obsessed icon with fame, fortune, and a celebrity marriage… but all is not as it seems.
Yayoi wears her glamor like a mask. There are dark corners of her life that she wants to hide from public view: An abusive husband, an oppressive recording contract with J-BIG Corp, a company controlled by his family that crushes her creativity, and memories of a past swept away by a tsunami.
While in New Zealand to film a music video, she is surprised by her estranged husband Nori, who without warning appears at her hotel and assaults her. On the run from both Nori and J-BIG, she meets Bill, a young corporate attorney recently made redundant, who is revisiting his past in order to rebuild a future. Although from very different worlds the two fall for each other, both unaware of the extreme measures Nori will take to get Yayoi to return with him to Japan.
A novel that's both cozy mystery and a dark psychological thriller is set in urban Japan and the raw backwoods of New Zealand.
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Praise for Gerard O'NeillFour out of four stars! - Official Review, Online Book Club