First published 1983 by Victor

Gollancz, Ltd. London.

ISBN 0-575-03245-6.

Cathy Harlow is a gifted painter, and some say she's brilliant. She is seventeen and three glorious years at art college stretch blissfully ahead of her. But one summer's afternoon she unwittingly trespasses on to the country estate of Paul Devlin, lead guitarist of the rock group Easy Connection and a millionaire superstar. Beautiful, exotic, cold, violent - Dev is for Cathy both intensely attractive and frighteningly repellent. He, captivated by her beauty, is quickly determined to have her for his own. And Dev usually gets what he wants.

Cathy knows that her art is the most important thing in her life, and she struggles to maintain her independence. But Dev pursues her relentlessly - ruthlessly - until she doubts her ability to swim against the tide...

Easy Connections is a powerful

and compelling first novel, a love

story with a difference, set against

a vivid background of art school

and the larger-than-life world of

successful rock stars.