Chapter 37
I stare at the cover. At a picture of myself taken a mere few weeks ago. All my wrinkles are on display. The smile on my lips is tentative at most.
Somewhere I’ve Never Been: The Official Isabel Adler Biography, the title reads. By Bruce Winkleman and Leila Zadeh.
I read the manuscript Leila sent to the publisher a few months ago, but holding the finished book in my hands is different. I’m glad I’m alone in my office. I need this moment on my own.
This is my life I’m holding in my hands. My story of the past sixty years. Mere months ago, it was my plan to never hold this book in my hands. To let it live a life of its own—to let it live without and instead of me.
Then Leila came along and changed everything. She gave me back the one true reason I felt I needed to live, which
