Who is Laurel Blake in the novel, Almost Paradise?

Laurel Blake is a model turned actress who is hired to play Nicholas' wife in a movie being filmed in Yugoslavia. One night toward the end of shooting, Nicholas and the crew are waiting for the weather to clear so they can film the final two scenes of the movie. Laurel comes to Nicholas' trailer and seduces him, doing something that multiple co-stars have failed to do since the beginning of Nicholas' career. However, the affair ends badly with Nicholas finding himself forced to buy Laurel off. Therefore when Laurel is hired to again play Nicholas' wife in William the Conqueror, Nicholas is not happy, especially when Laurel tries to reignite their former affair.