Priscilla, Elvis and me. Michael Edwards. 1988.

Michael Edwards lived with a Priscilla Beaulieu Presley for seven years - a year longer than she was married to Elvis Presley. Priscilla had been a shy and naive fourteen-year-old when Elvis Presley came into her life. Overwhelmed by his power and fame, she was molded by Elvis into his fantasy of a wife and mother.

As her lover, friend, and mentor Michael Edwards helped Priscilla blossom into a woman of elegant independence. He was also a father figure for Lisa Marie, Elvis’s only child, as she navigated the difficult years from childhood into adolescence.

In intimate detail, Edwards describes his stormy relationship with a Priscilla. We see the good times: driving sexual compatibility; love of the rugged outdoors; a successful program of purification; their “night of the living dead” raid on Elvis’s Palm Springs hideaway to sort out his possessions. And we see the bad times: the child they conceived and the abortion that filled them with despair; the terrible fights when Priscilla’s nubile daughter, Lisa Marie, started coming between them; Priscilla’s obsession with her beauty and fear of aging; Michael’s infidelities and Priscilla’s sexual interludes with famous leading men.