Meili Cady

Smoke: How a Small-town Girl Accidentally Wound Up Smuggling 7,000 Pounds of Marijuana with the Pot Princess of Beverly Hills Meili Cady

Publisher Marketing: Combining the excess of "The Bling Ring" with the intimacy of "Blow" and the charm of "Catch Me If You Can," "Smoke "is an outrageous, entertaining, and true story of an aspiring young actress ill-fated friendship and unwitting alliance with a drug smuggling heiress. Aspiring actress Meili Cady left small-town Washington State for the glamorous lure of Los Angeles. Young and alone, she was struggling to make her big break. Then she met Lisette Lee. Calling herself the Korean Paris Hilton, Lisette claimed she was a model and a Korean pop star, lived in a $1.2 million apartment in West Hollywood, owned a fleet of luxury cars, and flitted from one red-carpet event to the next. The connection was instant. Meili was enchanted by her friend s extravagant lifestyle, while Lee claimed Meili was the real thing in a town full of phonies. Soon, the financially strapped Meili became her friend s personal assistant and found herself sucked into an audacious criminal enterprise. But when Meili finally realized what she was a part of it was too late she was in too deep, caught in a terrifying relationship with a manipulative and abrasive con artist smuggling millions of dollars of pot into the Midwest. Trapped in a precarious criminal world of money, drugs, and dangerous secrets, Meili struggled to understand the line between truth and lie. A once naive girl who fell down the rabbit hole, she could only watch helplessly as it all came crashing down around her. "Smoke" is her story an electrifying tale of vice, corruption, hubris, and lost innocence as shocking and entertaining as "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "Bringing Down the House."" Review Citations: Library Journal 03/01/2015 pg. 101 (EAN 9780062281906, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Cady, Meili A native of Bremerton, Washington, Meili Cady starred as the lead actress in the Showtime comedy film Chick Magnet, and has appeared on Californication and other television shows. After a brief stint in a federal prison camp, Meili began the blog House Arrest Girl while she served a year of home confinement. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Contributor Bio:  Nordlinger, Romy Romy Nordlinger is a New York City based actress. As an audiobook narrator, Romy has lent her talents to nearly a hundred titles ranging in genres from romance and self-help to sci-fi and mystery. Her TV credits include roles on "Law & Order" and "One Life to Live".