Description
A hard-boiled crime story with a bi-sexual love triangle peppered with double-crosses. A music professor, an unhappily married woman, and a Mexican bartender band together to steal a buried fortune.
Frank, a frustrated singer-turned-music professor finds himself entangled in a love affair with Shelley, a highly-educated, unhappily married woman. Jonesing to quit his teaching gig, Frank jumps at the chance to implement his new girlfriend's scheme to steal the skimmed-cash treasure from her marijuana business tycoon husband. Feeling they need a third, she introduces him to Ramon, her go-to bartender, armed with a nomadic upbringing and a gun from behind the register, who likewise is all in. But Shelley's well-thought-out heist gets more complicated when the two men find themselves impossibly drawn to one another.
Hiding out in Palm Springs— 99 MILES FROM L.A.—Frank and Ramon team up in more ways than one, breaking promises not to reunite before Shelley can escape the watchful eye of her husband's colleagues after the brutal crime succeeds. With a trunk full of money and the aphrodisiac of lawlessness urging them on, was lust morphing towards love? Or was there a deeper plan in place between these three desperate partners, each of them scratching at their last chance for freedom from a failing American dream?
Fiction. LQBTQ+ Studies. Mystery.
Author Bio
P. David Ebersole is an American television director and independent filmmaker, working in both narrative and documentary. Born and raised in Hollywood, he is the son of a psychologist and his step-father was the City Editor of the Los Angeles Times. He began his film career as a child actor, playing the lead in the musical Junior High School (1978), which also co-starred Paula Abdul. Stepping behind the camera, he earned his MFA winning AFI's Franklin J. Schaffner award for best film/best director for his student thesis project, Death In Venice, Ca (1994). He directed and edited his first documentary Hit So Hard about drummer Patty Schemel of the seminal grunge band Hole, which was released theatrically in 2012. Along with his husband and business partner Todd Hughes, he is Executive Producer of Dear Mom, Love Cher, the subjective documentary Room 237, the award- winning House Of Cardin, and My Name Is Lopez about trailblazing Latino rock and roller Trini Lopez.
Author City: PALM SPRINGS, CA USA