Bøger af Judith Krantz

Lovers is pure Krantz, anintoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and foundamong women and men who lure each other with potentcombinations of money, talent, ambition, andpassion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini,the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature whogrew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two.Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new LosAngeles advertising agency, with her creativeteammate, David Melville, a brilliant youngart director who joins her in seeking newaccounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke,humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficultbeauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famedMillicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband AngusCaldwell, owns one of New York's largestadvertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian andan enormously successful mall builder, attempts tocapture Gigi's quicksilver affections, althoughhis fierce contenders for the same prize includeboth David Melville and the dominating film director,Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop IkehornOrsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroineof Scruples, and her new husband,the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy withtheir own fascinating lives, as are Gigi's father,canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her bestfriend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom canbe forgotten from Scruples andScruples Two. Loverscompletes all the stories set in motion in thefirst two novels, yet it stands entirely on its ownas a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983and 1984.

The cult classic reissued for its 35th anniversary - the original sexy read.

She was born Princess Marguerite Alexandrovna Valensky. But everyone called her Daisy. She was a blonde beauty living in a world of aristocrats and countless wealth. Women envied her: Daisy's life was a fairytale filled with parties and balls, priceless jewels, money and love. And Princess Daisy had to start again, with nothing.

Maxi Amberville is bold, brash and beautiful, a non-stop powerhouse with a passion for life's finest - in excess. When she learns that her late father's magazine empire is about to be sabotaged by her uncle and sold to highest bidder, Maxi demands control of "Buttons and Bows", the failing fashion trade weekly that was her father's first magazine.

Mortally wounded, she breaks all ties with Tessa and starts work at the Manhattan auction house of Scott & Scott. Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa determined to end their estrangement.

Blessed with beauty and talent, Jazz Kilkullen is an internationally acclaimed photographer and the owner of DAZZLE, a fashionable studio in Venice Beach, California. Successful and sexy, she is pursued by three exciting yet vastly different men, who have one thing in common, a passion for Jazz.

No-one is more anxious than Frankie Severino, twenty-seven years old and second in command at the modeling agency owned by her best friend and former model Justine Loring. When the three names are announced, Frankie is stunned - all are under contract to Justine Loring.

In her mid-twenties, Gigi is an original: as amusingly naughty as she is romantic, as personally courageous as she is sexually alluring. A talented copywriter, Gigi has just accepted a job at a Los Angeles advertising agency where she is teamed with a tenderly seductive art director.

The story begins on the day after Scruples ended, the day on which Billy's husband, producer Vito Orsini, won the Oscar for Best Picture. Spider Elliot, who reigns like a pasha at Scruples, is a man who adores women and can read their minds.

Eve de Lancel dared to bring endless scandal upon herself when she ran away from home to live in unrepentant sin, to win stardom singing in Paris music halls, to risk her life at the Front during World War I, to marry the Vicomte Paul de Lancel and become the greatest lady of Champagne.Eve's daughter Freddy defied even the high-spirited Eve by learning to fly solo before her sixteenth birthday, fighting for England during World War II, loving deeply - and losing as gallantly as she won.Freddy's sister Delphine led a secret life of wild nightclubbing and gambling in Hollywood, made a screen test on a whim, and by eighteen was a film star of the first magnitude, desired by men the world over. Yet she courted danger and risked all during the war, driven by her passion for the one man she could never possess - or forget.