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{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download A King in Wonderland by Nash Summers A King in Wonderland (Happily Ever Asher 3.) 3 csillagozás. Asher Williams is obsessed with love. Or at least he was, until it all came crashing down. He made a mistake. And even Asher himself, arranger of marriages and aider of lovesick hearts, doesn’t know how to fix it. And like every heroic quest, there are a few bumps in the road and dragons to slay. His column is a disaster because Asher can’t focus on love, his best friends are acting weirder than usual, Christopher turns out to be a man of many surprises, and Morgan, well… Maybe this time it does matter. Because when Asher finally realizes what his heart’s been aching for, it might be too late. And too broken. But there might just be a shred of hope somewhere deep down in his heart. Maybe Asher can fix everything and have his prince charming. Because love is always like a fairy tale…right? A King in Wonderland is a slow-burn romance with over-the-top characters, fairy tale references, ridiculous texts, and eventually, a happy ever after. A King in Wonderland by Nash Summers. Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? Sunburn sting, ice blocks glistening. The beautiful sight Of barbies alight. Strolling through a Summer Wonderland. Pour the sav in the sunshine. Serve the pav up at lunchtime. Pop the bubbles for Nan, Pineapples on ham. Strolling through a Summer Wonderland. In the arvo we can grab the wickets And plastic cricket bat your brother found. Backyard full of all your distant rellies, So we pass the can of mozzie spray around. Later on, sun is falling, And your drunk uncle's snoring. We'll hear the birds in the trees And feel the warm breeze, Strolling through a Summer Wonderland. Way down here, Christmas landmarks Are summer flowers and funny tan marks. We're happy and bright, Not a snowman in sight, Strolling through a Summer Wonderland. A King in Wonderland by Nash Summers (ePUB, PDF, Downloads) A King in Wonderland (Happily Ever Asher #3) by Nash Summers – Free eBooks Download. Description: Asher Williams is obsessed with love. Or at least he was, until it all came crashing down. He made a mistake. And even Asher himself, arranger of marriages and aider of lovesick hearts, doesn’t know how to fix it. And like every heroic quest, there are a few bumps in the road and dragons to slay. His inability to focus on love has turned his column into a disaster, his best friends are acting weirder than usual, Christopher turns out to be a man of many surprises, and Morgan, well… Maybe this time it does matter. Because when Asher’s heart finally realizes what he’s been looking for all along, it may be too late. And too broken. But there might just be a shred of hope somewhere deep down in his heart. Maybe Asher can fix everything and have his prince charming. Because love is always like a fairy tale…right? A King in Wonderland by Nash Summers. Kevin P. Casey/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The house on Wonderland Avenue, where four brutal murders took place and the infamous Wonderland murders video was filmed. When Alice fell down the rabbit hole and landed in Wonderland, she found smoking caterpillars, violent denizens, and a trove of body-altering drugs. Of course, that was just a children’s tale, but the real-life Wonderland wasn’t far off: a drug house on Wonderland Avenue, high above the Sunset Strip, that hosted the seedy side of LA’s up and comers. It housed hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs, and, on a vengeful leader’s orders, became the scene of a quadruple homicide so bloody that it made the news for decades. Meet The Players In LA’s Infamous Wonderland Murders. YouTube A close-up of the Wonderland house’s address, taken by the evidence tech who processed the crime scene and filmed the Wonderland murder video. Today, 8763 Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon is home to a neat little split-level with a carport, an iron-framework balcony, and a family with a minivan. Nothing on the outside suggests that on July 1, 1981, four bodies were discovered there, so beaten and bloody that the LAPD compared them to the Tate-Labianca murders. The house on Wonderland Avenue was home to the members of the Wonderland Gang, LA’s most successful distributor of cocaine in the 1970s. Their growing operation had virtually cornered the market. The property was officially leased in Joy Miller’s name, but it was home to a rotating cast of characters. Joy was a long-time heroin user who had fallen in with the gang after separating from her wealthy husband and Beverly Hills life. YouTube Drug paraphernalia from the Wonderland house, documented in the Wonderland murders video that recorded the crime scene. Joy Miller’s boyfriend was Billy DeVerell, the gang’s levelheaded second-in-command. Reports would later paint him as a reluctant criminal, one who regretted that his long track record of heroin abuse — and resulting arrests — made it difficult for him to find and hold other jobs. There was nothing at all half-hearted about Ron Launius’s criminal enterprises, though. Launius was Wonderland’s king, and he was as cold as ice. He had made a name for himself during the Vietnam War, when he was dishonorably discharged from the army for smuggling drugs back to the US in the bodies of dead US servicemen. Launius had already spent time in jail for smuggling and only narrowly escaped life imprisonment for murder when the prosecution’s star witness was killed in an accident. Police didn’t think they’d missed their chance, though; by the summer of 1981, Launius was a person of interest in as many as two dozen other homicides. Ron Launius’s wife, Susan, also lived in the Wonderland house. A drug user like her husband, she largely absented herself from gang activities. The most unusual member of the Wonderland household was John Holmes, the famous pornographer, who was a frequent guest and often purchased or mooched cocaine from the gang. Bettmann/Getty Images Porn star John Holmes, who would later go to trial for the Wonderland murders. Cocaine wasn’t the Wonderland crew’s only source of revenue. Heroin was their private passion and armed robbery their side gig. Stealing from their rivals was both a source of income and an effective way to keep their competitors out of the game — until it backfired one terrible, bloody night. The Crime That Provoked LA’s Bloodiest Slaying. YouTube The violence that resulted from the Nash robbery left hardly anything in the Wonderland house free from bloodstains. On June 29, several days before the Wonderland murders, four members of the Wonderland gang robbed the home of notorious club owner and gang leader Eddie Nash. Launius and DeVerell, disguised as police officers, led fellow gang members David Lind and Tracy McCourt into the rival leader’s home, where they handcuffed Nash and his bodyguard, Gregory Diles. During the robbery, as Nash was being made to open the safe, Lind accidentally shot and wounded Diles. They walked away, unrecognized, with $1.2 million in illegal drugs, cash, jewelry, and arms — the latter belonging to a collection the Wonderland gang itself had sold Nash just days earlier. Though police didn’t identify a suspect initially, Nash pointed fingers at several people he knew had been in his home the day of the crime. At the top of his list was John Holmes, who had returned to the house three separate times just that morning — presumably, he suspected, to make sure the patio door by which the gang later entered was unlocked. Bettmann/Getty Images Scott Thorson at the age of 24 in 1983. Scott Thorson, the former lover of Liberace, had also been present at Nash’s house. Thorson claimed that Nash had been so convinced that Holmes was involved that he had made his injured bodyguard track him down and beat the assailants’ names out of him. Though Thorson’s claims were never corroborated, in all likelihood they were true. That’s because just two days after Nash allegedly beat him for information about the assailants, the perpetrators were found brutally bludgeoned in their home. The Wonderland Murders Video Stuns The World. YouTube Crime scene footage of Butterfly Richardson, found in a pool of blood on the floor in front of the couch. At 4 p.m. on July 1, police received a panicked phone call from a pair of furniture movers. As they’d been working at the house next door to 8763 Wonderland, they’d heard desperate, pained moans coming from the drug house. Investigators met with a horrible scene. The body of Barbara “Butterfly” Richardson, David Lind’s girlfriend, was lying on the ground near the couch she had been sleeping on, covered in blood. Joy Miller was found dead in her bed, while DeVerell’s body was slumped at the foot, leaning against the TV stand. A bloody hammer was tangled in Miller’s sheets, and several metal pipes littered the floor. In the neighboring bedroom, Ron Launius was dead, bloodied and beaten almost beyond recognition. YouTube The body of Wonderland gang member Billy DeVerell, as seen in the crime scene footage colloquially known as the Wonderland murders video. Perhaps the most horrifying sight was Launius’s wife, Susan. She was found covered in blood on the floor next to the bed that held her dead husband’s body, her skull bashed in — but, miraculously, still alive.