(For readers who enjoyed The Godfather and Fifty Shades of Gray.)

If Carla knew her interior decorating career would involve pornography, mafia, and murder, she would have taken other college classes like Self Preservation: 101.

In 1973, Carla met Roy, a wealthy movie theater owner. He was captivated by her stunning beauty, talent and business sense. He hired her to refurbish his theaters and then their unique partnership led to marriage. Her splendid redecoration work was admired by a movie magnate; the boss of pornography's West Coast underworld. His wife wanted Carla to redecorate their newly acquired Hollywood mansion.

Through this elegant woman, Carla met and befriended other exquisite but lonely women married to high-ranking members of that mafia. When Roy was enticed to join them he became involved in more porno, and then parental child abuse and murder. And he dragged Carla into the depths of that shady world with him.

Carla loved Roy deeply but had to escape his deception, adultery, and control. She found solace in the loving arms of another man... a cop who set his sights on her husband. Spiraling deeper into that dangerous underworld, her family felt helpless. Carla's coiled mind became so entangled that they feared the loss of her sanity, while a wealthy secret admirer loved her from afar with his hands tied. But could he cease Roy's rampages? Perhaps a judge would step in to curtail him.

Or did Roy just dig her grave?

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