A quatorze ans, Tessa Kent met au monde une fille illégitime. Ses parents, de fervents catholiques, élèvent la petite Maggie comme leur propre enfant. Découverte par Hollywood, Tessa est une star internationalement reconnue. La petite Maggie ne vit que pour les rares visites qu'elle rend à sa célèbre " sœur " et qui ponctuent sa triste vie d'enfant solitaire comme de joyeux tourbillons. C'est à dix-huit ans, alors qu'elle est devenue une jeune fille indépendante et pleine de vie, que Maggie apprend fortuitement la vérité. Blessée, mortifiée, elle rompt tout lien avec Tessa et commence à travailler chez Scott & Scott, célèbre commissaire-priseur new-yorkais. Cinq ans plus tard, une grave crise existentielle provoque chez Tessa le désir ardent de mettre fin à leur mésentente. Mais saura-t-elle trouver le chemin de son cœur ? Jusqu'où peut aller une mère pour reconquérir l'amour de sa fille ? Les Bijoux de Tessa Kent nous entraîne des fastes de Hollywood à l'activité trépidante de New York et du marché de l'art. Mais c'est avant tout un roman fait de chair et de sang, une histoire de famille contant le deuil, la Privation, les erreurs, la joie et la rédemption.
Judith Krantz Livres
Judith Krantz était une auteure américaine célébrée pour ses romans d'amour à succès. Ses œuvres, traduites en 52 langues et vendues à plus de 85 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde, explorent les vies entremêlées de femmes ambitieuses. Krantz était connue pour sa narration immersive et sa capacité à entraîner les lecteurs dans des mondes de richesse et d'intrigue.







Haute Collection
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
Everyone in the world of fashion has been waiting for months, impatient to learn the names of the three American unknowns who will be picked to go to Paris to star in the d�but spring collection of brilliant, bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi. 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. This outrageous and inexplicable stroke of good luck forces Justine to admit to Frankie that it's no accident. Jacques Necker - the Swiss billionaire launching Lombardi - is her father, the man who deserted her mother before she was born. Justine has consistently refused to meet him, and the Lombardi contest has been his attempt to lure her to Paris. But Justine won't play his game. She sends Frankie in her place as chaperone for the three young women. Frankie and her charges spend two intrigue-filled weeks in Paris as the adventure-bound girls get ready to face the challenge of a runway show where they will be surrounded by the top models in the world. Under the magical spell of Paris in winter, all of them, including Frankie, become restless, rebellious and wildly romantic.
Lovers
- 505pages
- 18 heures de lecture
Belle, talentueuse, ambitieuse, Gigi Orsini vient d'être embauchée par la plus prestigieuse agence de publicité californienne. La voilà lancée entre l'univers de Hollywood et le monde des affaires. Un monde brillant et féroce où les rivalités professionnelles et amoureuses sont implacables. Dans le même temps qu'elle obtient ses premiers succès, elle est séparée de l'homme qu'elle aime, Zach Nevski, metteur en scène adulé. Ben Winthrop, un magnat des centres commerciaux, lui semblera celui auprès de qui elle peut retrouver le bonheur... Jusqu'au moment où elle découvrira son vrai visage. Entre Los Angeles et New York, entre Venise et le Japon, bien des épreuves l'attendent encore avant qu'elle retrouve celui qu'elle n'a jamais cessé d'aimer...
A nous deux, Manhattan
- 498pages
- 18 heures de lecture
Mistral's Daughter
- 564pages
- 20 heures de lecture
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 best-sellers, "Scruples," "Princess Daisy, I'll Take Manhattan," "Till We Meet Again," "Scruple" s Two, "Dazzle," and "Lovers."
Till We Meet Again
- 672pages
- 24 heures de lecture
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.
Scruples
- 576pages
- 21 heures de lecture
The story of a temple of high fashion where the wealthy and chic sip champagne, browse and gossip. It is the dreamchild of the fabled Billy Ikehorn, whose ruthless search for fulfilment leads her from lover to lover. The author's other titles include Mistral's Daughter and Princess Daisy.
Dazzle
- 576pages
- 21 heures de lecture
"Inside the fun-filled photographers' studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photo in the world. But her charmed career and her dashing private life, which includes three fascinating-and fascinated-men, are rocked when an unexpected tragedy leaves jazz to battle her father's vengeful ex-wife and the machinations of her half-sisters. At stake is the Kilkullen family ranch, a three-billion-dollar paradise of unspoiled California land that developers all over the world would do anything to possess... and Jazz will do anything to protect. Absolutely anything." -back cover.
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.
I'll Take Manhattan
- 437pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Here is Judith Krantz's greatest triumph--I'll Take Manhattan. In the high-stakes world of magazine publishing, she 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.