HONEY GONE THORNY is a novel set in Nebraska and Los Angeles, both in the United States of America. Its story is hinged on Beck Blades, a writer from rural Nebraska who is quite obsessed with having big Hollywood studios make movies based on his fiction stories. His ambition however, proves very difficult to accomplish, as his first ten stories meet with steady rejection. Beck is not a man to give up. He is very determined to succeed, even when it all looks most reasonable for him to give up, his wife Julie, very angry with him, and on the verge of leaving him. Beck writes his eleventh story in spite of all, and reluctantly sends it to fiction editors of a magazine published in New York, after experiencing more rejections from movie studios. He is now not expecting anything good to come from this submission. Editors of the magazine write back, and to his big surprise, with a big interest in his story. The magazine begins to serialize Beck’s story, and like a bomb, news of his story and talent explode everywhere. Readers all over America love his story and his artistry, making executives of movie studios take notice and begin to jostle to acquire his story. Beck finds fame and fortune, and is pleased to have found love once again, for getting romantically involved with Trisha his agent, not knowing Julie, his wife, who abandoned him for not giving up on his writing when the going got so tough, is on her way to finding a place in his life again. Beck meets Julie again and realizes he still loves her in spite of all, and takes the option of cancelling his already advanced marriage plans with Trisha, his agent. Trisha stays calm on receiving the news, and lets Beck know she has no problems with his new decision to keep their relationship only and totally professional.
Beck carries on with his life, enjoying fame and his expanding wealth, and very pleased that Julie is expecting a baby, not knowing that Trisha is not truly finished with him. Trisha executes her plans to get pregnant for Beck, and succeeds so well that Beck is left very bitter. What Beck loves to hate with a passion is the idea of two women being the mothers of his children. His mind is made up now. Beck, filled with a strong desire for vengeance, loathing for fame, just can’t help hurting his wife by going all out to get back at Trisha. He does not want to kill Trisha and his unborn child, but he is determined to deny her a chance to have a father to present to the baby in her belly. He leaves his home without letting Julie know he is on his way to taking his own life.
