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The Barnes & Noble Review
Emma Holly, author of Hunting Midnight and Catching Midnight, turns up the heat in this R-rated saga of fashion and passion set in Paris and New York. It features two young women, Beatrix Clouet and Lela Turner, who act out all their sexual fantasies even as they stumble from lust to love. Beatrix is the daughter of the late founder of an exclusive Parisian boutique; for years she has had a crush on her mother's second, much younger husband, Philip, and now might be the time to bring their simmering attraction to a boil. Her friend Lela wants to run the boutique's New York branch and turns to magnate Simon Graves for retail advice, which he gives in return for nights of sexual adventure. But Simon is also is a corporate takeover artist, interested in the boutique. When their tradeoffs threaten the very future of the boutique and Lela and Beatrix's friendship, what -- or who -- will be the first to give? Ginger Curwen

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Style and sensuality. Power and passion...There's something about the Parisian boutique Meilleurs Amis that provokes all who enter to blur the line between business and pleasure. No one knows this better than Beatrix Clouet, the daughter of its infamous and not-so-dearly departed founder, and her best friend-and newmanagement trainee-Lela Turner.

Now, as they try to get their professional and personal lives on track, these best friends will have to weigh the price of love and lust-while making their wildest fantasies come to life...