The success blog

The only child of a high-powered Los Angeles lawyer father and a mother who worked at William Morris as a literary agent, Lucas never wanted for anything—including intellect, his classic good looks, or his manipulative charm. His parents divorced when he was 10 years old, and his mother, Beth, took custody and moved him into a colonial in an affluent Connecticut suburb outside Hartford with a stepfather…

Nothing screamed University of Alabama football quite like Courtney and her Alpha Delta Chi sorority sisters—lily-white, satin faces streaked with crimson war-paint below doe-like eyes—screaming to a national television audience in their low-cut t-shirts: “Roll Tide!”…

Surrounded by a Midwestern-Protestant ethos she would never shake, Abigail was raised— in Ohio for her first six years—and taught to be obedient, hard-working, and helpful.
Abigail was the only child. Her mother, Helen, was a chemistry major at Oberlin College when she met Abigail’s father, Alex, an English professor at the same school…

Roxane grew up in Atlanta, raised by a single mother from who she inherited her gift of gab, with twin sisters, Brianna and Bella, two years her junior. Roxane’s father, Johnny now lived in Tallahassee and sent cards on Christmas and her birthday in February with whatever cash he could afford, depending on his Superbowl bets…

Ryan’s father hopped on his Harley Davidson and left him and his mother Dawn in Bakersfield, California when Ryan was too young to remember anything about the man. But his biker dad became a mythical figure in Ryan’s mind…

Chad was the pride of Warsaw, Indiana, and the Golden Boy of Kosciusko County after Ohio State offered him a full-football scholarship to play tight end for The Buckeyes out of high school. While many of the local folks wished Chad would’ve chosen to become a Hoosier, there was a general consensus that he had done Warsaw a solid with his athletic accomplishments, and the people in town would still root for him…

Scarlet was Rich and Rachel’s love child, and in the early-80s—after following The Dead for the first six years of Scarlet’s life—Rich and Rachel sold their van and put their college degrees in accounting and literature, respectively…