About This Book
Have you ever watched a fly that's caught in a spider's web? How it tangles itself up all the more when it tries to fight its way out? The more it struggles and kicks, the more a prisoner it becomes. The few flies that do escape do so by just quietly flying away. I was in a web and it seemed the more I kicked, the more I became entangled. So I decided just to quietly fly away. Just leave town. Torn between Texas and California, I flipped a coin and California won. My name is Kolton Phelps. I was co-owner of Sunburst Products, Inc., a company that manufactured skin-care products, which I recently lost to creditors in bankruptcy. In the process I came dangerously close to going to prison. The day my lawyer had the criminal charges against me dismissed for failure of the complainant to appear in court, I bought a one-way ticket to Los Angeles. Jake Bufferum, it seemed, lost interest in putting me in jail once he learned he had successfully destroyed me otherwise. “I think that hard-headed, stuck-up bastard has suffered enough,†Jake is reported as saying when he heard that my wife Kelly had thrown me out. Bufferum was my arch enemy and my business partner from hell. I hope Jake Bufferum doesn’t get wind of this, but what lies ahead frightens the hell out of me.
