Alison Owen

Alison Owen is the protagonist in the story. A protagonist is the leading or principal character in a work of fiction. Alison grew up in New Jersey and ran away to San Francisco when she was 17-years-old. Alison had an adventurous spirit and bored easily of things that were too common or ordinary. Alison was close to her father, but she and her mother did not always get along. Alison had an addictive personality and succumbed easily to drugs and alcohol while on the streets of San Francisco. She also was sexually adventurous as a teenager . That aspect continued through her adulthood.

Alison was beautiful and became a model, starting in New York but eventually going to Paris where the world opened up for her. She began a secret affair with the man who owned the modeling agency and had many job opportunities which led to wealth...