Park Avenue Danielle — Danielle Davis

With her debut novel, author Danielle Davis weaves a tale of hypnotic brainwashing, sex, money, and the all-too-common mistakes made both by golddigging social-climbers, and the men they inevitably draw, and to which they are drawn.

The action begins at the funeral for Danielle's only friend in New York, “Mind Control Mindy,” a brutally murdered stage hypnotist whose “Megasleep” hypnosis video cured Danielle's insomnia, but also gave her the ultimate “nuclear weapon” for getting what she wants from men. In three short years, ending with her twenty-first birthday, Danielle accumulates $10 million, but the story is how she does it. Along the way, she encounters a cast of characters that could only exist in Manhattan, including a mentor who guides her away from the typical golddiger's existence, which proves his favorite saying that “A fool's paradise is paradise to the fool.”

Very loosely based on several true stories, Park Avenue Danielle is a blueprint for the correct way to convert female beauty into wealth, without the risk of winding up like Mindy, or simply failing financially, as well as a “clinic” on the limits of hypnotic power. As Danielle learns, the claim that “all hypnosis is self-hypnosis” is but a myth she repeatedly disproves to her advantage. Fans of the mind-control or female-hypnotist genre, as well as serious students of hypnosis and golddigging, will find this novel worth many times its purchase price, as well as a great read for a lazy afternoon, or sleepless evening.