Jean Marie Stanberry

Laying Low in Hollywood Jean Marie Stanberry

Publisher Marketing: Starting over is never easy, but that is exactly what Lane Jensen is going to have to do if she is going to overcome the shock and sadness of finding out that her husband of more than twenty years, has been cheating on her and now wants a divorce. Ready to try something new and unexpected, Lane agrees to take a job as a coach and choreographer, working on a fledgling reality TV series which pairs professional athletes with professional skaters and attempts to make a pairs team out of them. The team is expected to skate one performance each week on the show, the competition eliminates one couple each week. Lane travels to Hollywood, hoping to immerse herself in her new career. She soon finds herself completely enchanted with her gorgeous co-star, retired superstar quarterback, Ron Brannon. Unfortunately, Ron is married, and the chances of her team winning the competition seem slim. Ron has never ice skated, ever... The other half of Lane's seriously mismatched team is Russian figure skater Elena Denkova. Elena speaks only broken English, and her motivation for coming on the show is suspect. Lane is suspicious that Elena has only agreed to do the show, in hopes of landing bigger roles in Hollywood. It takes a lot of work to train a pairs figure skating team, especially when on of the partners has no experience at all. The team is expected to train together many hours a day, so they become quite close. Of course, the cameras are always rolling and Lane knows that even though Ron's own marriage is on the rocks, any hint of romance between the two of them would be scandalous and bad publicity for their show. Will Lane be able to resist Ron for the next four months? It hardly seems likely. Will Lane be able to take her seriously mismatched team to the finals and possibly win the competition? Contributor Bio:  Stanberry, Jean Marie Jean has enjoyed literature and writing her entire life. Until recently, Jean has been a busy wife and mother who works full time as a surgical nurse. Eight years ago, Jean and her family left the hustle and bustle of their home town, St. Louis, and moved to a charming resort town in Northwest Montana. Still, her busy life didn't leave her much time to pursue her love of writing. In the past several years both her children graduated from high school and she began to pursue her love of writing part time as a guest blogger for International Figure Skating's website and writing features for Skating magazine and Fire on Ice magazine. Jean's lifelong love of figure skating has taken her from a competitive and professional figure skater with "Holiday on Ice" to an award winning choreographer for multiple venues including "Holiday on Ice" and "Disney on Ice." Jean still loves to skate recreationally, but traumatic injuries sustained in a car accident effectively ended her career in skating. Jean went on to graduate from Southern Illinois University with a degree in finance, working briefly as a stock broker and a finance manager for a St. Louis based corporation. When the company sold out to a Detroit based company, Jean chose to stay behind in St. Louis and go back to school and pursue what she really wanted to do, which was nursing. Jean attended nursing school at Jefferson College and later obtained her BSN from Webster University in St, Louis, Missouri. After working many years in a variety of nursing positions, Jean enjoys her job working in surgery in a small rural hospital. Jean lives in northwest Montana with her husband Gary, and their adult children Ryan and Lauren. The entire family enjoys the great outdoors in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Their favorite activities are hiking, biking, kayaking, cross country skiing, boating and traveling.