Chapter 3: You Can Lick Your Wounds Here
It had snowed overnight. What looked like a blizzard the next morning measured three inches on the crisp ground. Wind became ferocious and whipped in maddening circles. The sun hid behind thick, gray clouds, seeking shelter from the wicked snowstorm. Ice hung from street signs, windows, and gutters. All of Pittsburgh was coated in snow, wind, and ice, chilled to its core.
Melinda returned to Hollywood the following morning because her agent, Carly Diner, demanded that she take an immediate leading role in a Nora Roberts movie that would premiere on Lifetime. The twenty-six-year-old lead, Becca Hammond, had been hit by a car in Beverly Hills the previous afternoon, pushed into a coma. Since Melinda could pass as Becca’s twin, the producers of the f
