Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, flees her abusive boyfriend in Australia and ends up in L.A. Cameron soon gets a job at a private fitness club where she encounters the city's most important players. She has plans to open her own studio, and while every man she meets comes on to her, she is focused on working hard and saving money to achieve her goal. Until she meets Ryan Lambert, that is. An extremely successful independent movie producer, he's married to overly privileged Mandy Lambert, the daughter of Hamilton J. Heckerling, a Hollywood power-player son-of-a-bitch mogul. Ryan has never cheated on his demanding Hollywood Princess wife, but when he meets Cameron, all bets are off.
Only internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins knows what happens when lust and desire collide with marriage and power. And the results lead to murder.
“Collins delivers Lucky’s usual mix of celebrity fantasy and godfather justice while Max promises to grow up in future sequels as troublesome and triumphant as her glitzy mom." –Publishers Weekly
“Delicious…this one is perfect for the beach!” –John Searles, Cosmopolitan
“Another Jackie Collins novel, overflowing with glittery possibilities and dropping more Hollywood names than Ivy’s maitre d’. And Beautiful may be the best novel starring Lucky Santangelo.” –Entertainment Weekly
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Jackie Collins has been called a "raunchy moralist" by the late director Louis Malle, "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair magazine and "the Victor Hugo of our time" by Simon Doonan in the New York Observer. With over 400 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries, and with some twenty-two New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Jackie Collins is one of the world's top-selling novelists. She is known for giving her readers an unrivaled insiders knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous, and sometimes bad! "I write about real people in disguise," she says. "If anything, my characters are toned down -- the truth is much more bizarre." Jackie Collins started writing as a kid, making up steamy stories her schoolmates paid to devour. Her first book, The World Is Full of Married Men became a sensational bestseller because of its open sexuality and the way it dealt honestly with the double standard. After that came The Stud, Sinners, The Love Killers, The World is Full of Divorced Women, Lovers And Gamblers, Chances, and then the international sensation, Hollywood Wives -- a #1 New York Times bestseller, which was made into one of ABC's highest-rated miniseries starring Anthony Hopkins and Candice Bergen.
The Stud and The World is Full of Married Men were also filmed -- this time for the big screen. And Jackie wrote an original movie, Yesterday's Hero, starring Ian McShane and Suzanne Somers.
Reader's couldn't wait to race through Lucky, her next book -- a sequel to Chances -- and the story of incredibly beautiful, strong woman, another New York Times number one.
Then came the bad boys of Hollywood in the steamy Hollywood Husbands -- a novel which kept everyone guessing the identities of the true-to-life Hollywood characters.
Jackie then wrote Rock Star -- the story of three rock superstars and their rise to the top, followed by the long-waited sequel to Chances and Lucky -- Lady Boss -- tracking the further adventures of the wild and powerful Lucky Santangelo as she takes control of a Hollywood studio.
Both Lucky and Chances were written and adapted for NBC television by Jackie, who also executive produced the highly successful six-hour miniseries Lucky/Chances, starring Nicollette Sheridan and Sandra Bullock.
In 1992 she produced and wrote the four hour miniseries, Lady Boss, which became another huge ratings success for NBC. Lady Boss starred Kim Delaney. Next came American Star, a love story, which the Los Angeles Times described as "classic Collins."
And then the dangerously close to the truth Hollywood Kids -- a story of power, sex, danger and ambition among the grown offspring of major celebrities.
In 1996 Vendetta -- Lucky's Revenge was published -- and became an immediate New York Times bestseller.
And then in 1998, Thrill!, a psychological thriller for the nineties, in which Jackie created her signature mix of unputdownable characters.
In the summer of 1998, Jackie hosted her own daily television show, "Jackie Collins Hollywood." A combination of fun, style and interviews, Jackie talked to everyone from George Clooney to RuPaul!
After that she wrote L.A. Connections -- a four-part serial novel published one per month -- Power, Obsession, Murder and Revenge.
In 1999 came Dangerous Kiss -- the return of Lucky Santangelo in a bestselling novel about relationships, addiction, fear and lust.
In the year 2000, Lethal Seduction became the first bestseller for Jackie Collins in the new millennium. This tale of erotic suspense and glamorous intrigue featured Madison Castelli, a character first introduced in the L.A. Connections series.
Hollywood Wives -- The New Generation became a blockbuster bestseller in 2001, following in the footsteps of the original Hollywood Wives. Hollywood Wives -- The New Generation featured a brand new cast of characters and a totally fresh perspective on how women pursue power, love, sex and success in Tinseltown today.
In 2002, New York flash, L.A. trash and a Mafia don met head-on in Deadly Embrace, a sexy tale of dangerous passion and suspense featuring heroine Madison Castelli that was both a prequel and a sequel to her adventures in the bestselling Lethal Seduction.
2003 marks the return of Jackie Collins to prime-time television with a brand-new two-hour CBS TV movie Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation, starring Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert, Robin Givens and Jack Scalia and produced by Collins. And in December 2003, comes her twenty-third novel, HOLLYWOOD DIVORCES, a sizzling, glam-drenched novel of lust, infidelity and revenge featuring all-new characters navigating Hollywood's treacherous trail of divorce.
Ms. Collins lives in Los Angeles, California. Her hobbies are photography, soul music, and exploring exotic locations so she can write about them later.
There have been many imitators, but only Jackie Collins can tell you what really goes on in the fastest lane of all. From Beverly Hills bedrooms to a raunchy prowl along the streets of Hollywood; from glittering rock parties and concerts to stretch limos and the mansions of the power brokers -- Jackie Collins chronicles the real truth from the inside looking out.
There is a subtle shift of style in 'Married Lovers' compared to Collins' latest work. In this, her soon to be 26th bestseller, Jackie Collins weaves a tale of murder, sex and decadence akin to her 1980's zenith 'Hollywood Wives' that is absolutely terrific. Ever the raunchy moralist Collins goes for the jugular of Hollywood's baddest and boldest. An absolute smash, like a great affair 'Married Lovers' by Jackie Collins will leave you wanting more!
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I am a HUGE fan of Jackie Collins, but I do think with her last two books (this one included) she has very much stuck to a formula of what her other books have been based on (hookers, hollywood, rags to riches, murder) with the 'good guys' always getting what they want in the end. She is very guilty of rushing an ending and then having an Epilogue which rushes through how it all ended .. I really wish she would spend more pages rather than doing it this way, but hey. Overall was a good read, but I felt I knew what would happen all along (and I was right!). Jackie needs to mix it up a bit next time .. give us more Lucky Santangelo (and LESS of her daughter Max!!) .. Happy reading.
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I'm hoping - and assuming- "Married Lovers" is only a temporary setback on the great Jackie Collins career. She's written some fantastic things before ("Lucky" should be required reading as how to write the ultimate beach novel and "Lovers and Gamblers" for anybody preparing to fly over the rain forest...) and undoubtedly will again. I just wasn't feeling it this time around.
To start with, there's the title. It sure promises a lot but there really aren't a lot of married lovers running around and the main characters are bland. There are none of Collins' signature "little detonations" that I usually count on to appear throughout the book that always manage to keep the reader hooked. Instead, nothing truly thrilling happens until the final 50 pages or so. Add in a subplot that's borrowed pretty heavily from "Hollywood Wives: The Next Generation" albeit with a different resolution and there things are pretty flat.
That said, there is a great, very original running story about a young woman fleeing her horrible Eastern European existence and trying to forge a new identity for herself that's gripping. It's definitely the best part of the book and it's mercifully broken up into sections so that it doesn't become too much of a downer. I will always be a Jackie Collins fan and look forward to her next release because even when I am not as thrilled over pone of her books, she still manages to entertain.
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