COOL KEY PRESS

The Montecito Rules

In Montecito, rules are made to protect the powerful—and keep everyone else out.

She serves the champagne. She's not supposed to fall for the heir.

Sofia Reyes has spent five years catering events for Montecito's coastal elite — invisible, flawless, and never confused about where she stands. Alexander Whitmore has spent years in New York trying to outrun his family's $420 million legacy. When he returns home and discovers his late father's unfinished project, it leads him straight to Sofia — the woman already building the same dream on her own. Same vision. Opposite worlds. And a pull neither of them can ignore. In Montecito, that's not a love story. That's a liability.

A slow-burn, forbidden romance about class, ambition, and what it costs to choose love in a world designed to keep people in their place.

Fault Lines

He came to make a film. He might not live to finish it.

Mark Sinclair escaped advertising hell to produce a $12 million NBC mini-series in Mexico City. When permits vanish and military support evaporates, his project spirals toward disaster—until Marta Salgado walks into his life. Beautiful and mysteriously connected, Marta fixes his problems with a few phone calls. As their professional relationship turns personal, Mark believes he's found both love and salvation in the chaos of 1985 Mexico City. He's wrong—about almost everything. When the earthquake hits, Mark discovers that loyalty is currency, trust a liability, and some secrets are worth killing for.

“A modern noir where Hollywood ambition collides with Mexican corruption in a deadly dance of desire and betrayal.”

Lights, Camera, Roma

Love and Power in Italy's Greatest Film Dynasty

Jack Durgin is a young LA commercial producer sent to Rome for a simple job — a Coke spot, big budget, sixty seconds of manufactured feeling at an Italian train crossing. Then Valentina Bellandi walks into the casting session and nothing is simple again. She's connected to a world of old Roman money, film dynasty power, and unspoken rules — a world controlled by her mother, la Contessa, who has spent a lifetime deciding who belongs and who doesn't. Jack doesn't belong. Choosing Valentina means risking the career he's spent years building. Walking away means losing the only thing that's ever felt more real than the thirty-second spots he produces for a living.

The Cuban and the Cool Kids

From Havana to High Society: A Stylist's Life Among the Stars

An unprecedented look inside the private lives of America's most powerful women—Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor—told by the man who held their secrets and witnessed their vulnerabilities. A profound meditation on identity, ambition, and what it truly means to belong.

“A rare glimpse behind the velvet curtain of fame, told with the discretion of a master and the honesty of a man who finally learned the difference between belonging and becoming.”

Blood & Fortune: The Armour Empire

Three Generations, One Empire, Countless Secrets

One family’s fortune built America’s empire—and nearly destroyed itself. A sweeping historical novel of the Armour brothers, 19th-century titans who turned Chicago’s meatpacking industry into an empire. Behind the wealth lie betrayals, tragedies, and a legacy stained by the cost of progress.