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By 90909 standards, this would count as a pretty modest house, a four-bedroom ranch with a tidy yard, at the end of a cul-de-sac. It's typical of this neighborhood, which is the sort of place where people spend a little more than they need to at Christmas, but not the sort where people hire Victorian carolers to perform in clouds of special ( Read more... )

( The Hidden Track )

Previously . . .As far as Trina can tell, this Agent Booth person seems to be determined to vent his frustration at being a midlevel government drone by making her drive all the way down to Neptune for a ten-minute interview. Which is really annoying ( Read more... )

Previously . . . She had meant to get over here sooner, see how her brother was doing in his new place, the one that doesn’t include turndown service and 24-hour meal delivery. Bring him a potted plant or some equally lame house-warming present ( Read more... )

A little known fact about Trina Echolls is that she is very much a morning person. This is something of a liability in Hollywood. "Morning person" just isn't nearly as good a career move as "night owl," since there aren't a lot of red carpet breakfasts, and no one is at all interested when you're photographed leaving Starbucks with a no fat half- ( Read more... )

OK, so it wasn't exactly a Christmas out of the movies. But it went surprisingly well, given that most Christmases for the Echolls siblings have been one step removed from hellish ( Read more... )

Trina has decided, in that way Trina decides things, that she's going to have a nice, happy, normal family Christmas. The fact that she has no nice, happy, normal family at any other time of the year does not deter her. She's going to have family and carols and cook food and there's going to be a Christmas like you have in the movies, not one ( Read more... )

Sometimes a girl wants to see and be seen when she goes out in LA, and sometimes she really doesn't. If you're Trina Echolls, the former is usually the case and the latter is hard to pull off these days, after the thing with Nicole and Logan's . . . whatever that was on Larry King last night ( Read more... )

The "Out of Candy" sign is on the front door. The half-drunk bottle of wine is on the coffee table. The shirt she wore today is on the floor by the door to the kitchen. Trina is on the couch. And Bryan's hand is on the zipper on her skirt ( Read more... )