夏日風暴

Chris was a struggling actor and Mary a struggling scholar, but their marriage was a perfect, passionate union -- until the glitter of Hollywood and a dazzling starlet stole Chris away. At the time when she needed him most, he betrayed and failed her, and she swore never to see him again. Chris became a world-famous actor, and Mary a respected professor, and only in the darkness of the movie theater did she allow herself to think of him. Then, in the flash and glare of reporters' cameras, they met again, and the smoldering love reignited. They had never officially divorced. Had he come back to reestablish their marriage... or end it irrevocably?

梅莉.康納 - 本書的女主角，年輕的女博士。大學畢業即不顧一切嫁給一文不名的克里遜。

克里遜.道格拉斯 - 本書男主角，在學期間即為一位鋒頭頗健的舞台劇演員。婚後開始在影壇大放異彩，也因此埋下了夫妻不和的因子。

米爾.赫納 - 克里遜的經紀人。

瑪哈.仙杜拉 - 年已四十多的女演員，與克里遜合演「哈姆雷特」舞台劇。

傑森.拉里 - 一名影劇記者，經常騷擾梅莉。