Background
Seranella was born in Santa Monica, California and then grew up in Pacific Palisades.
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Hoping to start over after kicking a heroin addiction, Munch Mancini flees Venice Beach when she becomes a suspect in the shooting death of her abusive father, but she must return for a dangerous showdown in order to move on with her life."
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Munch Mancini and little daughter Asia are doing just fine. Munch rejoices in her job as an auto mechanic at the Brentwood Texaco. She and Asia have a house -- not in tony Brentwood -- and a dog, and Munch has been off drugs for years. She plans to stay that way. It's tough, though, when people from her old life resurface. Such a person is Lisa Slokum, Asia's aunt. Lisa has always meant trouble, and why should now be any different? It seems she has bolted from the Witness Protection Program with her two daughters, fifteen-year-old Charlotte and eleven-year-old Jill, and she needs Munch's help. Would that it were so simple. Munch will need to call upon Rico Chacón, a fine cop but not-so-fine boyfriend whose commitment to her on the nonprofessional side seems to be wavering. And before Munch can sort out her love life she must try on the role of auntie to Asia's new cousins -- not easy when the teenaged Charlotte goes missing and her mom, Lisa, lands in jail. Why did Charlotte run away, and where is she now? Is she in danger of becoming one of Hollywood's lost street children? Does she have information about the recent death of school friend Steven Koon? And why was a lock of her hair found stuck to a piece of duct tape in a ransacked storage locker? Munch must unravel the mystery of young Charlotte's complex life before it's too late to save her. To do that, she needs help from Rico, who's investigating the Koon boy's death. Will their professional alliance rekindle their romance? Should she take him back? Does he want to come back? Can she trust him? With its pulsating suspense and penetrating look at family relationships and the universal need for love and affirmation, Unwilling Accomplice is the best yet from a versatile author whose passionate voice shines through her fast-moving prose.
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Munch Mancini is a hardworking, no-nonsense car mechanic in Los Angeles. Having recently recovered from nearly every recognized addiction, she's doing her best to keep the sins of her past behind her. So, Munch is not pleased when an ex-lover shows up, looking for a favour.
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Seranella was born in Santa Monica, California and then grew up in Pacific Palisades.
She left what could have been an idyllic childhood to run away at 13 to seek adventure. She hitchhiked to San Francisco and joined a hippie commune. While there she learned auto mechanics on the street (she liked to hang out with guys who had cars).
Seranella married Walter Haring in spring of 1982.
He was the father of Michera Nicole Colella (DOB March 4, 1982). Seranella raised Michera as her own, often picking up the slack where Michera"s biological mother"s addiction paired with Walt"s psychological instability left Seranella to pick up the pieces.
Not wanting to create a wedge between two sisters being raised by a single mother with two different fathers, Seranella made the decision to take in Maryann Colella as well and raise her as her own too, just to avoid the confusion of separating the two girls. Barbara acted as an amazing mother to both girls.
In the worst of their mother"s addiction, Barbara would come just to bring clean pillow cases and basic food supplies even years after her divorce with Michera"s biological father.
Barbara was truly a mother even though her body hadn"t allowed her the actual opportunity. She raised two very strong, independent women who miss her daily. She had homes in Louisiana Quinta and Laguna Beach, California.
Seranella died January 21, 2007, in Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.
She was waiting for a liver transplant to cure her liver disease.
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