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Nashville Skyline by Chrissy Coleman Egress Books
book review by Claire McKnight
"The root of all evil is not money, it’s sex."
Maggie White is a young woman in pursuit of her lifelong dream to become a country music singer. She moves from her childhood home in Kentucky to Nashville Tennessee where she takes a job as a receptionist of a small publishing company owned by the legendary country singer, Billie B. Cannon. Before long, Maggie discovers the twisty road to success is met with the sinister vices of the music business. Struggling to keep her innocence in a world of underhanded traditions, she realizes it may not be possible to do so if she wants her dream bad enough.
Eventually, Maggie meets Reggie Zitto, the owner of Club Zitto, where many careers have been launched, when Reggie promises to make Maggie a star. Maggie takes Reggie up on his offer and her career begins to rise as the house singer of Club Zitto, while succumbing to Reggie’s extreme demands that eventually lead to being cast in a porn movie. We watch Maggie’s career rise and fall in a life altering spiral of drug abuse and sexual exploitation that shatters her dignity.
Her one true friend, Billie B. Cannon takes Maggie in and helps her recover eventually introducing her to a producer who helps get her career back on the right track.
Chrissy Coleman documents the labor of Maggie’s determination to keep her dream alive along the shadowy road of possibilities in this loss of innocence story that takes the reader along the ride to the end.