William Holden and Natalie Wood were two of Hollywood's most beloved stars—until they died under mysterious circumstances two weeks apart in November 1981.Holden was the clean-cut, smiling hero of highly-revered movies such as Sunset Boulevard, Born Yesterday, Sabrina, The Country Girl, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, and The Bridge on the River Kwai.Wood was a pretty ingénue, who beguiled and bewitched millions of admirers in the enduring hits Rebel Without a Cause, Marjorie Morningstar, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, Gypsy, and Love with the Proper Stranger.Behind Holden’s stalwart façade, however, was a deeply troubled man, whose mind was bedeviled by demons. In private, Wood was emotionally insecure and prone to fits of anger and jealousy.Their lives and careers of these two movie giants intersected in peculiar ways that neither of them anticipated. Holden was in love with the voluptuous actress Stefanie Powers, while Wood was married twice to the romantic heartthrob Robert Wagner, who costarred with Powers in the hit TV series Hart to Hart.This ménage à quatre had all the makings of a glamorous romance—except fate had other plans.The foursome’s simmering emotions reached the boiling point when Holden tripped and fell in his Santa Monica beachfront apartment. His body lay undiscovered for five days. Two weeks later, Wood vanished from her yacht off the coast of California. She was found several hours later, floating face down in the water.What tragic circumstances led to their terrible demise? How did Holden and Wood perish and were Wagner and Powers responsible for their tragic deaths?Now, on the 40th anniversary of the most puzzling whodunit from that star-studded era, bestselling author Howard Johns, whose glittering chronicles A Stolen Greed and Glamour in the Mexican Jungle, and Palm Springs Playground of the Stars have thrilled multitudes of readers, reveals the shocking truth about Holden and Wood’s tangled lives.Known for his indepth reporting and extensive research, Johns breaks open closet doors and exposes the skeletons luirking inside that were previously kept hidden from the public in his explosive new saga Drowning A True Story of Love, Passion and Betrayal. It’s an unexpurgated account of stardom at its finest and riskiest.More provocative and daring than anything you might have read or heard, Drowning Sorrows takes you on a suspenseful ride from the glittering red carpets of vintage Hollywood, where multi-million-dollar movie deals were made between high-powered agents and their famous clients—through the private boudoirs of elegant Palm Springs mansions, where wealthy celebrities swam in Olympic-size swimming pools and made passionate love under the blazing desert sun—to the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean that stretches from the California coastline to the far horizon—with a gut-wrenching double climax of stark terror.Incredibly, Holden tripped and fell in his beachfront condominium in Santa Monica, where his body lay undiscovered for several days. Two weeks later, Wood vanished from the deck of her luxury yacht off Santa Catalina Island and was found hours later floating dead in the water.