New Releases by Judith Krantz

Insolente, fougueuse et ambitieuse, une héroïne follement attachante Maxi Amberville, 29 ans, débordant d''énergie, est aussi belle que charismatique. Celle qui a déjà évincé trois époux sur deux continents réside dans une luxueuse tour résidentielle, et vit sa vie comme une suite infinie de plaisirs et de voluptés. Cependant, lorsque sa mère épouse un homme qui envisage de vendre l''empire médiatique de son père, Maxi doit troquer sa légèreté épicurienne en une fervente quête du pouvoir. La voilà alors qui reprend le contrôle du légendaire magazine de mode Buttons and Bows ! Accompagnée de son ex-mari au tempérament sanguin, de son impertinente soeur et d''une armada de puissants de ce monde, elle va tout risquer pour transformer un journal vieillissant et trop sage en B&B, le magazine de mode le plus extravagant, glamour et tendance du pays. Maxi n''a décidemment pas froid aux yeux. Et son ambition ne connaît aucune limite, pas même celles du coeur.

Una heroína rutilante dispuesta a tenerlo todo. La deslumbrante Maxi Amberville, nacida en el corazón de la riqueza y el prestigio, decide tomar las riendas de su vida. Esta joven, que encarna el modelo femenino de los años ochenta, se enfrentará a grandes desafíos hasta convertirse en una audaz mujer de negocios que jamás desdeña los placeres del sexo; una indómita emprendedora que conquistará la industria de la edición de revistas y el amor.

They were three generations of magnificent red-haired beauties born to scandal, bred to success, bound to a single extraordinary man—Julien Mistral, the painter, the genius, the lover whose passions had seared them all. Maggy: Flamboyant mistress of Mistral’s youth, the toast of Paris in the‘20s. Her luminous flesh was immortalized in the paintings that made Mistral legendary. Teddy: Maggy’s daughter, the incomparable cover girl who lived fast and left as her legacy Mistral’s dazzling love child. Fauve: Mistral''s daughter, the headstrong, fearless glory girl whose one dark secret drove her to rule the world of high fashion and to risk everything in a feverish search for love. From the ‘20s Paris of Chanel, Colette, Picasso and Matisse to New York’s sizzling new modeling agencies of the ‘50s, to the model ward of the‘70s, Mistral''s Daughter captures the explosive glamour of life at the top of the worlds of art and high fashion. Judith Krantz has given us a glittering international tale as spellbinding as her other celebrated bestsellers, Scruples, Princess Daisy, I''ll Take Manhattan, Till We Meet Again, Scruples Two, Dazzle, and Lovers.

PASSION... In a tale as timely as Scruples, as compelling as Dazzle, as intriguing as Mistral''s Daughter, Judith Krantz launches three innocent beauties on the city of fashion and love.... SCANDAL... It''s the hottest thing that''s ever happened to Loring Model Management. Three of its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collection of bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi--and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract. But the agency''s owner, Justine Loring, is furious. Only she knows that Lombardi''s billionaire backer, Jacques Necker, has set her up, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, and meeting him face-to-face. GLAMOUR... But Justine isn''t about to play his game. She dispatches these three sensational girls--the classic Minnesota blond, the African-American goddess, and the moody Tennessee redhead--in care of her second-in-command, fiery, droll Francesca Severino. Little does Justine know how their two weeks of discovery and love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan that will change her own life. SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN STYLE.

Lovers is pure Krantz, an intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and found among women and men who lure each other with potent combinations of money, talent, ambition, and passion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini, the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature who grew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two. Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new Los Angeles advertising agency, with her creative "teammate," David Melville, a brilliant young art director who joins her in seeking new accounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke, humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficult beauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famed Millicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband Angus Caldwell, owns one of New York''s largest advertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian and an enormously successful mall builder, attempts to capture Gigi''s quicksilver affections, although his fierce contenders for the same prize include both David Melville and the dominating film director, Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop Ikehorn Orsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroine of Scruples, and her new husband, the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy with their own fascinating lives, as are Gigi''s father, canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her best friend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom can be forgotten from Scruples and Scruples Two. Lovers completes all the stories set in motion in the first two novels, yet it stands entirely on its own as a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983 and 1984.

For the first time Judith Krantz has chosen to tell a story rooted in the shattering emotions of a mother-daughter relationship gone desperately wrong. The story unfolds on a classic Krantz background, a magic carpet of gorgeous entertainment and sumptuous events. Yet, at its core, The Jewels of Tessa Kent is an engrossing, deeply moving, and ultimately inspiring tale of two women bound by blood yet torn apart by their deepest emotions. Tessa Kent, an exquisite and precocious fourteen, gives birth to an illegitimate daughter. Her parents, devout Catholics, raise the infant, Maggie, as their own child. At sixteen Tessa is discovered by Hollywood; by nineteen she''s an international movie star. Maggie lives for her glorious "sister''s" infrequent whirlwind visits. Maggie is a captivating, independent eighteen when she accidentally learns the truth. Mortally wounded, she breaks all ties with Tessa and starts to work at the famed Manhattan auction house of Scott & Scott. Five years later, a life-altering crisis makes Tessa passionately determined to end this estrangement. An auction is the only way she can find to reach her daughter, an auction of the immensely valuable collection of famed jewels that represent all the love lavished on her by her late husband. Tessa promises Scott & Scott the auction on the condition that Maggie and she work closely together on the sale. For Tessa, her entire future now hangs on the hope of an almost impossible reconciliation. The Jewels of Tessa Kent deals with the fascinating workings of an auction house; it''s a revealing look at the inside of Hollywood stardom; but more than anything else, it''s a story of feelings and family, of loss, mistakes, joy and redemption.

In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, Judith Krantz weaves a dazzling tale of love and betrayal, and creates her most joyous character—sensational Maxi, an uninhibited woman who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for life is matched by a hunger to succeed. Gorgeous, flamboyant Maxi Amberville is twenty-nine and has already discarded three husbands on two continents. Life is a stream of endless pleasure in her lavish Trump Tower apartment—until her widowed mother married a man who plots to sell her father''s magazine empire. And Maxi turns her incredible lust for living into a passionate quest for power. Maxi takes over the small weekly Buttons And Bows. She gathers her hot-blooded ex-husband, sassy daughter and a coterie of the powerful elite. Then, risking all, Maxi creates B&B—the glitziest, ritziest, most successful fashion magazine in the country. Here is a dramatic, sizzling story of love, family, ambition and one unforgettable woman who gives life and love everything she has.

Dear Reader, As I was about to start my eleventh novel, I abruptly realized that I was making a huge mistake. On the verge of launching into the imagined world of a twenty-eight-year-old, I felt an intense need to tell another story, the story of a woman I know through and through...a woman with more wealth of experience, a woman who''s seen more real glamour, known more fascinating people, lived in a world of more sophistication, and arrived at more hard-won maturity than that twenty-eight-year-old could hope for---in short, my own story. I''ve tried to remain as unknowable as possible, the better to let my heroines hold the stage, but now I was ready to tell the truth about myself, with no holding back. I''ve had a different life from that of the majority of women of my generation and background. While I seemed like another "nice Jewish girl," underneath that convenient cover I''d traveled my own, inner-directed path and had many a spicy and secret adventure. I grew up in a complicated tangle of privilege, family problems, and tormented teenaged sexuality. After a riotous education at Wellesley, my life was turned upside down by a glorious year in Paris, marked by an intense but ill-starred romance. I spent the next half-decade in New York, sowing lighthearted wild oats until I finally met my true love, to whom I''ve been married for forty-six years. When I was fifty I had an utterly unexpected, almost unbelievable success as a number-one bestselling novelist that has continued for book after book. Challenging, lucky, exciting, and often devastatingly askew, my life seems to have been lived under a wild and antic star. I''ve had as much amazing fun as my heroines, and here''s the book to prove it. Judith Krantz

The romances of a group of American models while in Paris for a fashion show. The show is part of a plan by a Swiss billionaire to meet his daughter, a model whom he has never seen, having abandoned her mother before she was born.

Een jonge vrouw maakt kennis met de wereld van de jetset en de verschillende stadia van opkomst en rijkdom, neergang en verraad.

La bella Gigi Orsini trabaja en una agencia de publicidad de Los Angeles. En el curso de un ao, nuevas relaciones profesionales y romnticas cambiarn su vida drsticamente. A cargo de la agencia estn dos seductores hombres solteros y una mujer que se vuelve inmediatamente su enemiga. La accin salta de Los Angeles a Madison Avenue, a las montaas de Montana, un palazzo en el Gran Canal de Venecia y una mansin en la rive gauche de Pars.Judith Krantz atrapa y entretiene al lector con la maestra de siempre.

De rijke eigenares van een winkelketen in Hollywood wil zich uit het zakenleven terugtrekken.

Effrontée, immorale et belle jusqu''à l''indécence, Maximilienne Amberville découvre, à vingt-neuf ans, que son aptitude au plaisir n''a d''équivalent que son ardeur au travail. Elle s''y jette corps et âme : l''empire de presse fondé par son père menace de s''écrouler. Et l''artisan de cette ruine n''est autre qu''un de ses oncles, Cutter Amberville, l''homme des menées obscures... A nous deux, Manhattan, est le drame du pouvoir et de la trahison, de l''amour vrai et de l''obsession érotique. L''action se déroule de nos jours dans le monde de la presse et son héroïne est la plus vivante, la plus fascinante, la plus sensuelle jamais peinte par Judith Krantz, l''auteur de l''Amour en héritage. On ne lâcherait pas son livre avant la fin pour un empire... de presse. Valérie Hanotel, Madame Figaro. Attendez seulement de faire la connaissance de Maxi Amberville et de son imprévisible famille : en moins de temps qu''il n''en faut pour le dire, la mauvaise note qu''a récoltée votre gamin ou le bruit que s''obstine à faire votre voisin, toutes ces contrariétés qui vous collent au quotidien disparaîtront comme par enchantement. Claude Servan-Schreiber, Marie-France.

Princess Daisy comes from the fairy-tale world of ancient aristocracies to live in a garret apartment in Soho where her life is transformed into that of an energetic modern woman.

Scruples, Judith Krantz''s electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended . . . continues. Only a single night''s sleep seperates the lives of the characters in Scruples from this mesmerizing sequel. Billy Ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. Then a stranger arrives in Billy''s life--Gigi Orsini, Vito''s sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. Independent, deeply interesting, street-smart, and enchantingly humorous, Gigi captures Billy''s heart and sets in motion a train of utterly unexpected events. Life with Gigi hold both joy and pain for Spider Elliot and Valentine O''Neill, Billy''s partners in Scruples. The many new freinds Gigi makes during the next five years will grow important to Billy in ways she could never have forseen. Scruples Two moves swiflty and unexpectadly, filled with breathtaking change, from California to New York to Paris, following two of the most fascinating and touching females in modern fiction, Billy Ikehorn and Gigi Orsini.