On Wings of a Lion

by Susan Wakeford Angard

Overview

ON WINGS OF A LION is a whirlwind of international intrigue and passion set in the last days of the Shah of Iran's reign.

In 1978, daredevil film director Kathryn Whitney comes to Iran to shoot a package of TV commercials at the ruins of Persepolis. She leaves Hollywood behind and arrives in a country exploding with revolution.

While visiting the Bank of Tehran, Kathryn is drawn to a display case housing The Persian Glories—a private jewelry collection of priceless canary diamonds with a powerful legacy owned by Sir Anthony Evans. Kathryn has no idea how these legendary jewels will endanger her life.

In Shiraz, Kathryn meets Sir Anthony, a world-renowned photographer and the type of world-class playboy she can't stand. Half Persian, half British, Anthony is torn between his birth country and his family heritage. Kathryn realizes Anthony is not what he seems and a powerful attraction overtakes them. She decides to join Anthony on a dangerous undercover assignment against the Black Glove. This organization, a covert splinter group of SAVAK, Iran's secret police, endangers her film shoot, her livelihood and her life.

Kathryn and Anthony fight to survive the long arm of their enemy as The Persian Glories, coveted to the point of obsession by Anthony's ruthless Aunt Rena and the Black Glove terrorists, set off a tide of treachery, murder and betrayal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733898409
Publisher:	Tudor House
Publication date:	04/01/2019
Series:	The Persian Glories , #1
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Susan Wakeford Angard graduated high school on the lot of Twentieth Century Fox Studio. During this time she had leading roles in major television shows at Fox Studios, Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal and MGM. Her fascination for Ancient art then led her to study for an art history MFA at UCLA.

After leaving UCLA, Susan joined a family-owned TV Commercial Production Company, shooting consumer product commercials from McDonald’s to Budweiser, Purina and Boeing. She traveled much of the world filming on location, including in the Middle East during the last months of the Shah of Iran’s regime. Susan became an eye-witness to the Islamic Revolution.

Her attraction to visual arts persisted leading to a career as an architectural interior designer and owner of an award winning Los Angeles design firm and has won competitions on several episodes of Designer’s Challenge, an HGTV design show.

Susan wrote briefly for CBS episodic television but with a need to tell her own stories, she changed genres to write fiction. She attended the UCLA Writers Program and the advanced writers program at The University of California at Irvine, and is currently involved in a follow up writer’s critique group. During this time she raced vintage autos, was director of a prominent Arts Décoratif Collectors Gallery as well as raising four children. Susan lives with her present husband, her love, and is currently finishing her next novel.