Sass & Serendipity

It’s September 1946, and the aftershock of World War II is still being felt around the world, when Pamela Simmons sails under San Francisco’s Golden Gate to face the future and the greatest challenge of her life. Recently liberated from a Japanese prison camp in the Orient, she believes she’s invincible, and sets out to prove it with a vengeance. Her career weaves through the birth of subliminal marketing, the post World War II housing boom, the Southern California fashion business, and the race for space in California’s aerospace industry.

Hired, fired, bumped and dumped, she always lands right-side up, and her luck still holds when she meets and marries Jay Masters, the love of her life. Poles apart in personality, they find their differences only add zest to their wild and wonderful life together.

Masters, who couldn’t care less for political correctness, takes her readers on a ride that leaves them chuckling with laughter and swiping at tears, only to be buoyed up again by an indomitable spirit that refuses to go down without a fight.

Sass & Serendipity is a fun read that holds you from the very first page to the very last line.

Chapter 1

San Francisco, September 14, 1946

Something magical happens when you approach the Golden Gate from the Pacific at sundown. The bridge is no longer a gigantic span of red steel with majestic suspension spires, but an exquisite golden tiara.

That September evening, while our troopship, the General Meiggs . . . sailed under the Golden Gate, I saw more than a view of that lovely sprawling metropolis, its windows ablaze with the setting sun — I saw the future, and it looked fantastic. . . .

I have to admit, the teen years I spent in the prison camp weren’t all bad, even though we had appalling living conditions and scant food rations. I learned a lot I could never have learned anywhere else . . . the most important of which was to enjoy each day as it came, to look forward, never back, and to live each moment without regret. And unknown to me at that time, I became invincible.

Updated August 2011