Katherine Owen

Novelist ~ Writer of the dark, angsty love stuff (stories), champagne aficionado, expert finder, secret keeper

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New Release! The Image Maker – Fame & Infamy ~ 1

 

It’s been a while, yeah?

Announcing my latest novel release: The Image Maker ~ A Love Story ~  Hollywood Hearts ~ 1

Here’s the premise:

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 Betrayer ~5

The Image Master ~6

* * *

 

BUY the eBook:

AMAZON   AMAZON UK

Currently, The Image Maker is exclusive to Amazon and part of their Kindle Unlimited program. If you don’t have a Kindle but want to read the book, please go here.

Note: Some of these website links for the books are affiliated links and I thank you so much for your support of my work! 

 

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Also Coming in this series:

THE IMAGE BREAKER  – Hollywood Hearts Book 2 (Late Summer 2025)

THE IMAGE KEEPER  – Hollywood Hearts Book 3 (Fall 2025)

 

 

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"You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she asks.
Now, I’m curious. She hasn’t spoken for the last ten minutes of the drive. “What?”
“Too much air blows out the fire. Too much water destroys it.”
I nod trying to determine what she’s really comparing us to. “The idea would be to keep the flame going, right. For years?” She nods. “Like a relationship. Like a marriage.” She cringes at the word marriage. Noted. “So you need the air—to stay constant—to fan the flames of the fire, and you know, grasshopper,” I smile at her and catch sight of the corners of her mouth turning slightly upward in response to the endearment, “a hot enough fire will burn water, so you have to be careful with the water too.”
“That I do know,” she says softly. “So that’s the truth about air and water.” She sighs deep.
“Which is?”
“It’s hard to maintain the balance to keep the fire going. You have to fan the flames without putting it out with too much water. But too little water will burn the fire right up. Too much fire. Too much destruction. We’re out of control.”
“You’re talking in circles,” I say.
“No. That’s us,” she says with certainty."— Katherine Owen

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Riding With the Queen
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Year of Fog
Normal People Don't Live Like This
April & Oliver
The Truth About Delilah Blue
The Gargoyle
Faking It
Blueberry Truth
Falling Under
Small As A Mustard Seed
Strange Flesh
Easy
Slammed
Gone Girl
Reason to Breathe
Barely Breathing
Kindle Single: Injured Reserves
The Sea of Tranquility


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