Beneath the Velvet Skies by Rusty Van Reeves

I had to read for this for my local book club. I didn't finish it - got in about 200 pages and gave up. It's a LuLu book, so I assume it is self published. It's a good starter novel, but definitely not ready for prime time, and not good enough to be published. Too many plot lines, too many characters, too many short scenes, bad dialog, and so forth and so on.