AWFUL BY COMPARISON

Jennifer Taylor is home for the holidays - and the foreseeable future - as she loses her job, apartment, and boyfriend, a month before Christmas. Her sister, Lara, a beautiful NYC-based model, is also coming home - to announce a whirlwind engagement to a rich hotelier.

But when an anonymous, online Blog hits the headlines, both sisters find themselves at the centre of a dark secret, which will change their family forever. Will Jennifer ever learn to live in the shadow of her sister's success - preferably with a full-time job and a drawer full of matching underwear? Can Lara ever find happiness in a world where appearances can be deceptive, and men usually are?

Sisters, models, friends, or finances - sometimes a girl feels Awful By Comparison.

Patricia Caliskan began her writing career as an entertainment journalist, joining Trinity Mirror Newsgroup as a lifestyle magazine editor and then moving to Bauer Media where she now works as a commercial scriptwriter based at Radio City 96.7.