Spenderella: A Mark Barrett Christmas Fable

Riley Spender is a Madame to the global elite - she counts princes, presidents and pontiffs as her friends, her parties are international, infamous and invitation only. She’s rich, she’s successful and she has a black book the size of a medieval ledger. The press call her Spenderella - the poor girl who caught the heart of many, many princes, and has the jewellery, the lavish lifestyle and the tabloid profile to prove it. And now she wants out. She calls on Mark Barrett, an old friend and her first love, to aid her escape - together they’ll make the glamorous Spenderella disappear and, in the reverse of the Cinderella fairy-tale, a thirty-something, single-mother will emerge to live quietly and anonymously in New England. But what will this meeting of old flames mean for Mark’s self-image as a modern day Sir Galahad, and will past loves and old scars bear scrutiny?