Nashville Skyline

In Chrissy Coleman's first novel Nashville Skyline, a talented young country and western singer from Kentucky takes us through the underbelly of the music business as she struggles to carve out a career. Maggie is recognized as talented by those in the know, but she must first find her way through a jungle of phony entrepreneurs and con artists. She has steadfast determination and grit, and the kindness of an aging C&W star who becomes her mentor. Yet her dignity is wounded, her name changed to Diamond, and she is sexually exploited to the breaking point. Chrissy Coleman chronicles the highs and lows of Maggie's travail in a prose style as spare and on point as the best C&W lyrics, creating a story that grabs readers on page one and doesn't turn them loose till the final scene. - Robert Gover, author of One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding