THE ALEXANDRITE

How many lives does Jack have to blow before getting it right? , And is sleeping with Marilyn Monroe worth getting murdered again?When Jack Cade is fired from a no-pay production of Hamlet, he has no inkling his next role will be opposite Marilyn Monroe&mdash,forty years back in time, in 1956. , As a down-and-out aging actor, Jack&rsquo,s luck and life change when he&rsquo,s anonymously sent a pawn ticket for an alexandrite ring. , After his wife leaves him, a mysterious woman asks him to meet her at an old mansion deep in the San Fernando Valley. , With nothing to lose, Jack decides to go. , Once he steps through her door, he enters a world of beguiling physics and plain old magic to travel through time. , Through a dark, glitzy whirlwind of events, Jack meets Marilyn, gets killed more than once, and emerges with the jewel that changes his destiny. , He discovers the answers to all his life-and-death questions within the constantly shifting colors of the alexandrite._,