Cornelia

THE LONG AWAITED SEQUEL TO LAUGHLAND!What happened to my father? nine-year old Cornelia asks again.Her mother, the famous actress who never answers, surprises her daughter with, What happened? I'll tell you what happened! Your father was a spy and a spook, and he did what all spooks do. He vanished!Never having known her father, Cornelia invents Fearless Frank-- loving father, ace adventurer, and intrepid hero who every week dies trying to save the world. With the help of the rotating cast of nanny-actress hopefuls she calls the Stand-Ins, they perform the Friday Night Dramas starring Fearless Frank who flies off only to disappear forever leaving behind his wailing, grief-stricken daughter. Her obsession drives her life from daughter of a Broadway star, to achieving her own stardom in film. Through the years, the search goes on as she digs deeper into the secrets of Bong Sat, where she learns Frank McBride had died at the hands of a dreaded enemy. Then she meets Amos Eliot. The hero of Laughland and Cornelia discover their shared past. They vow to right the wrongs that took the lives of their fathers.