Shell Shocked

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Twenty five years after his face papered the walls of her bedroom Shelby Ristow is about to meet her </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>celebrity teenage crush.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> And as soon as </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>80s soap opera star turned reality TV host </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Jake Ford walks into her salon she discovers he is still perfectly capable of making the butterflies in her stomach perform advanced flight maneuvers. It's not long though before Shelby finds her nostalgia and nervousness taking a backseat to the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>undeniable chemistry sparking between them</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>.  </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>  When an audition video from a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>vivacious pinup style </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>esthetician vying to be featured on his show </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Dare Me To Do It</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> catches his attention Jake Ford can't deny his immediate interest in Shelby Ristow. Now meeting her in person looking every bit the t</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>echnicolor temptress</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> her video promised he is thrown off his game in the best possible way. There is only one problem. She is married. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>  Months later Jake learns that a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>tragedy</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> has left Shelby single and he jumps at the chance to reconnect with her. Drawn together by an intense </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>physical attraction </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>and something else- something undefinable the two begin a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>scorching affair.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Almost immediately however the aftershocks of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>past trauma </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>has Shelby falling apart at all kinds of inopportune moments. Meanwhile Jake grappling with his own history in his own way is more than </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>happy to pick up her pieces</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>  When the path forward requires honesty from Jake and trust from Shelby can they each reconcile events from the past and find their way? Or are they just providing what the other needs in a fated connection not meant to last? </span></p><p><br></p>