Best Selling Books by Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins'' American Star is a love story for the nineties. At its heart are two extraordinary lovers, separated by tragic circumstances, yearning for each other, yet seemingly never able to be together again. Nick and Lauren can never forget each other. Teenage small-town lovers -- he from the wrong side of the tracks, she the prettiest girl in town -- their love was the town scandal, forbidden, sizzling and unforgettable, ending abruptly in a tragedy that sent them into separate orbits. Nick pursues his dream of acting, and after a series of wild adventures begins the slow rise that will make him one of Hollywood''s biggest stars. Lauren goes to New York and enters the modeling world, surprising everyone with a career that takes off in a direction she never expected. American Star follows them both on their trips to fame, as Nick and Lauren, haunted by the secret they share, try to live without each other -- only to find they can''t. American Star is a compelling story of love, sex and murder, set against the glamorous backgrounds of New York and Hollywood, as only Jackie Collins can tell it.

Jackie Collins is back—in this deliciously scandalous novel, Lovers & Players. And she''s giving her readers a revealing look into the private realms of her fabulously rich and sexy cast of characters. Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a high-powered trip from Park Avenue to Brooklyn. In Lovers and Players, the Diamond family''s power extends from coast to coast. Max—a real estate tycoon; Chris—a Hollywood lawyer; and Jett—a young, handsome ex-druggie, now a successful model in Italy, must finally come face to face with their tyrannical father, Red, who has been controlling their world for as long as they can remember. Working as Red''s housekeeper is Diahann, a beautiful black ex-singer. Her stunning bi-racial nineteen-year-old daughter, Liberty—a waitress who is a would-be singer herself—does not approve of her mother working as a housekeeper. Liberty has dreams of her own and while she pursues them, Damon P. Donnell, married hip-hop mogul supreme, pursues her. Amy Scott-Simon, a beguilingly pretty young New York heiress, in engaged to marry Max Diamond. At her bachelorette party she runs into Jett, Max''s younger brother. Jet has no idea who Amy is. She also doesn''t realize who he is. A one-night fling leads to major complications. As the lives of these characters intertwine, power, money, fame and love are the ties that bind—emotionally and otherwise—in this highly charged love story about family relationships and deadly choices.

From Miami to Beverly Hills, from Mexico City and Acapulco to Las Vegas, Lucky Santangelo is back! And so is the illegitimate son Anthony Bonar, of her one time Godfather and lethal enemy, Enzio Bonnati. Featuring a brand new introduction from bestselling author, Melanie Blake, talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ''Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers'' COLLEEN HOOVER ''There will never be another Jackie Collins, she’s the sassiest fairy godmother of all’ MELANIE BLAKE There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. ''A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women''s fiction'' JILLY COOPER ‘Jackie shows us all what being a strong, successful woman means at any age’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL ‘Jackie’s heroines don’t take off their clothes to please a man, but to please themselves’ CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Legend is a word used too lightly for so many undeserving people, but Jackie is the very definition of the word’ ALEX KHAN ‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN ‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM ‘There’s a lot a drag queen can learn from Jackie’ TOM RASMUSSEN ‘Lessons galore on every page… about feminism, equality, tolerance and love’ CARMEL HARRINGTON ‘Jackie is the queen of cliff-hangers’ SAMANTHA TONGE ‘Nobody does it quite like Jackie and nobody ever will’ SARRA MANNING ‘Jackie bought a bit of glitter, sparkle and sunshine into our humdrum existence’ VERONICA HENRY ‘Jackie wrote about Hollywood with total authenticity, breaking all the rules and taboos’ BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD ‘Collins was saying that women didn’t have to centre round men, either in books or in life’ JESSIE BURTON ‘What radiates from her novels, is a sense that women are capable of great things’ ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY

"On the beach and in the bedroom, perhaps no one plays with the heart -- and other body parts -- as successfully as scandal queen Jackie Collins."- Philadelphia Daily News In the internationally bestselling third book of the iconic Lucky Santangelo series, the ultimate Lady Boss Lucky has her sights set on conquering an entirely new empire—Hollywood. Can she do it? Of course she can. She''s Lucky Santangelo, and she always gets what she wants. Gorgeous, alluring, and calculating, there''s nothing she can''t do and nothing she won''t do to seize what she craves the most: unlimited power on her own terms. Standing in her way this time is her ruthless uncle, Abe Panther. He owns Panther Studios, Lucky''s ticket to Hollywood dominance. But he''s not about to just hand over the reins to Lucky, no matter how generous her offer to buy him out may be. She must first prove she understands the system—how to make it and how to break it. So Lucky disguises herself and goes undercover as a secretary to get an intimate, up-close-and-personal peek at how the Hollywood machine runs. She soon uncovers a dark and complicated web of financial scheming and big-time betrayals that when revealed, allows her to finally clinch her prize. Now at the peak of the entertainment pyramid, Lucky sets off a series of shock waves with rippling effects that resonate way beyond the industry and put a huge strain on her marriage to Lennie. But also, in becoming the Queen of Hollywood, she stokes the generations-old hatred of crime boss Carlos Bonnatti, putting her life and the lives of those closest to her in grave danger. . . How many will perish in Lucky''s pursuit of complete control? In classic Collins style, Lady Boss grabs you by the hand and doesn''t let go! Gritty, riveting, and utterly suspenseful, Lucky''s Hollywood adventures are sure to stay with you long after you''ve put the book down. Adapted in the 90s into a highly successful NBC mini-series, the Santangelo novels are currently being developed for TV once again by Working Title Productions and the updated series is set to be compulsive, sexy and totally binge-worthy! "Collins''s raunchy effervescence has a moral edge, making butts of male arrogance and vanity, and urging Hollywood to say no to films that hawk sexism and brutality." - Publishers Weekly "Impossible to put down." - Wall Street Journal Read the whole Lucky Santangelo series! 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky''s Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos

Cameron Paradise, a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer, flees Hawaii and her champion-surfer husband, Gregg, in the middle of one of his abusive tirades and makes her way to L.A. Tall, blond, with a body to die for, it doesn''t take Cameron long to find a job at an exclusive private fitness club where she encounters LA''s most important players. She has plans to open her own studio one day, and while every man she meets comes on to her, she is more focused on saving money and working hard than getting caught up in the L.A. scene of wild parties and recreational drugs. Until she meets Ryan Lambert, an extremely successful independent movie producer. Ryan is 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, especially since she''s seeing his best friend Don Verona, the devastatingly attractive talk-show-host and legendary player. In her latest sizzling blockbuster, internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins explores what happens when lust and desire collide with marriage and power-and the results lead to murder.

"What radiates from all of her novels is a sense that women are just as capable of great things as men." - ALEXANDRA HEMINSLEY, author of Some Body to Love The internationally bestselling scorcher Lovers and Gamblers is a Jackie Collins classic—packed with all the luscious ingredients that stir up the drama and sizzle with every page turned... Fans don''t realize that rock and roll superstar Al King has a family back in London, and his brother-manager Paul does whatever he can to keep Al''s wife, Edna, in the dark and Al at the top of his career. After all, being a rock star pretty much comes with the guarantee of having any woman he desires ready, willing, and able to be in his bed. Whatever Paul''s doing is working—Edna never suspects infidelity, no matter what the papers say, and Al essentially has the world at his feet. Except Al''s not a typical rock star. He craves substance and intelligence, something more than what the women he typically attracts have to offer. So when ambitious beauty queen Dallas Lunde enters his life, and she doesn''t fawn after him like the others, he''s intrigued. In fact, not only does she not pine, she stands him up—and more than once! When Al and Dallas do finally connect, the result is an explosive passion that neither could ever have expected. But not everything is as it seems. For one, Al doesn''t realize that Dallas is harboring a terrible secret from her past, a darkness she''ll do anything to keep covered. As Dallas makes her way to superstardom, she''s also made her fair share of enemies, many of whom she stepped on or over on her way to the top, and someone with access to her secret is right on the verge of exposing Dallas and bringing her down. From London to New York, from Hollywood to Rio and the steaming jungles of the Amazon, Al and Dallas endure misunderstandings, blackmail, murder, and hijackings, and they may make it out alive—and together—in this sexy, funny, and outrageous page turner that''s truly Jackie Collins at her best! Already read Lovers and Gamblers? Try more by Jackie Collins. The Lucky Santangelo series 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky''s Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story The World is Full series 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women

Featuring a new introduction from Tasmina Perry talking about what Jackie and her books mean to her! ‘Underneath all the glitz and bluster, the sex and the scandal, her tales are moral’ TASMINA PERRY ''Jackie Collins’s daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and storytellers.'' COLLEEN HOOVER Hollywood Wives, with its ten-million copy sales, and its spectacular success as a television mini-series, left Jackie Collins'' devoted audience avid for the other side of the story. NOW HOLLYWOOD HUSBANDS GO ALL THE WAY! There have been many imitators, but only ever one Jackie Collins. With millions of her books sold around the world, and thirty-one New York Times bestsellers, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. From glamorous Beverly Hills bedrooms to Hollywood movie studios; from glittering rock concerts to the yachts of billionaires, Jackie chronicled the scandalous lives of the rich, famous, and infamous from the inside looking out. ''A true inspiration, a trail blazer for women''s fiction'' JILLY COOPER ‘Jackie shows us all what being a strong, successful woman means at any age’ MILLY JOHNSON ‘Jackie will never be forgotten, she’ll always inspire me to #BeMoreJackie’ JILL MANSELL ‘Jackie’s heroines don’t take off their clothes to please a man, but to please themselves’ CLARE MACKINTOSH ‘Legend is a word used too lightly for so many undeserving people, but Jackie is the very definition of the word’ ALEX KHAN ‘What Jackie knew how to do so well, is to tell a thumping good story’ ROWAN COLEMAN ‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves’ ISABELLE BROOM ‘There’s a lot a drag queen can learn from Jackie’ TOM RASMUSSEN ‘Lessons galore on every page… about feminism, equality, tolerance and love’ CARMEL HARRINGTON ‘Jackie is the queen of cliff-hangers’ SAMANTHA TONGE ‘For all her trademark sass, there is a moralist at work here’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘Nobody does it quite like Jackie and nobody ever will’ SARRA MANNING ‘Jackie bought a bit of glitter, sparkle and sunshine into our humdrum existence’ VERONICA HENRY ‘Jackie wrote about Hollywood with total authenticity, breaking all the rules and taboos’ BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD ‘Collins was saying that women didn’t have to centre round men, either in books or in life’ JESSIE BURTON

"They lunch at Ma Maison and the Bistro on salads and hot gossip. They cruise Rodeo Drive in their Mercedes and Rolls, turning shopping at Giorgio and Gucci into an art form. They pursue the body beautiful at the Workout and Body Asylum. Dressed by St. Laurent and Galanos, they dine at the latest restaurants on the rise and fall of one another''s fortunes. They are the Hollywood Wives, a privileged breed of women whose ticket to ride is a famous husband."--Author''s website

" "If you pick up this book, you won''t put it down....Collins fans will gobble up Rock Star." - Vogue Jackie Collins didn''t just write about the rich and famous--she had a front-stage insider''s view! When her husband ran nightclubs in London, top rockers often frequented and they''d bare their most salacious secrets to her, which she''d then weave into her stories. Combining these real-life experiences and her incredible imagination, she captures the raw, electric thrill of life in the spotlight in the pulse-pounding, page turner Rock Star! The legend, the comeback, and the rising star. . . Three talented, ambitious dreamers want rock and roll superstardom so badly they''ll do anything and anyone to get it. There''s English rocker Kris Phoenix, who''s been chasing the dream since he was a teen. Once part of an up-and-coming duo, Kris is forced to cut his childhood friend loose when Buzz becomes a buzzkill to superstardom. Kris''s career immediately skyrockets—but at what cost? Then there''s country-western singing prodigy Bobby Mondella. The former child star lost his money, fame, and eyesight practically overnight, but now he''s ready to bask in the limelight as he forges on a new path in the rock arena. Finally, there''s lounge-singer Rafaella. She''s endured a string of terrible tragedies that could have broken her but instead fueled her to propel beyond her past and her dysfunctional marriage, and soar to the top. All three hopefuls are hopelessly connected by the ruthless music manager Marcus Citrogen and his devious wife Nova, and could soon learn that the price of fame may just be just a bit too high in this pure adrenaline ride of a story that culminates in three climactic moments that satisfy readers as only a book by Jackie Collins can! "The way the story is written is what really makes Rock Star a book that is worth waaayyyy more than just a fourth read." - The Young Folks Book Blog Already read Rock Star? Try more by Jackie Collins. The Lucky Santangelo series 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky''s Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story The Stud Series 1. The Stud 2. The Bitch The World is Full series 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women

A luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez, a birthday cruise for one of the world''s most beautiful women, and an invitation no one can refuse.

Can''t get enough of Bobby Santangelo? Check out this unbelievably sexy and scandalous bonus story by New York Times bestselling author Jackie Collins. This e-book original also includes a special sneak peek of the sensational New York Times bestselling novel Poor Little Bitch Girl. Only Jackie Collins can take you inside the glamorous lives of the rich and famous.

LUCKY SANTANGELO IS BACK IN Jackie Collins'' SCINTILLATING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! She''s the seductively beautiful, street-smart survivor who fought for fame and power in Hollywood and happiness in marriage. She''s the strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances -- and always wins. Now, driven by raw fury when a member of her family is randomly gunned down, Lucky hunts for a killer throughout glamorous Los Angeles. But her quest for revenge is complicated by the sudden return of a man from her past -- a man with a Dangerous Kiss ...will it destroy everything she has?

Jackie Collins is... the undisputed Scheherazade of the stars." — New York Post Strong, sexy women are the lifeblood of Jackie Collins''s novels, and The Love Killers takes this to a bold new level! Famed activist Margaret Lawrence Brown had always been a staunch advocate for women through her Free Women Now organization, especially for sex workers in New York City. So when she gets shot during one of her women''s empowerment lectures, three of her nearest and dearest step in with an insatiable desire to destroy the lives of those responsible. Part Cherokee and part Louisiana hillbilly, glamorous, statuesque underground adult film star Rio Java lives life as she pleases. As one of Margaret''s closest friends, she knows Margaret had a lot of enemies, but she''s determined to narrow the list to find the killer and avenge Margaret''s death. Jet-setter socialite Lara Crichton, Margaret''s secret half-sister, is bored and ready to break free from her latest beau, Prince Alfredo, when she gets the tragic news. She immediately heads to New York to help—willing to do whatever it takes. And boho beauty Beth Lawrence Brown seems a sweet, innocent, hippie chick—but when she learns about her sister''s assassination, she leaves the safe confines of her commune behind, hellbent on getting justice at any cost. When Rio learns that crime boss Enzo Bassalino is responsible for the hit, she devises a plan for the three women to go after Bassalino''s sons with the most powerful weapon they have: Sex. Rio heads to London to destroy Angelo with devastating passion. Lara flies to LA to take down Nick with smoldering intent. And Beth stays in New York to slay Frank with her wanton wiles. It''s a dangerous game, filled with intrigue, suspense, and sensuality as the story builds to its thrilling and brilliantly satisfying climax. Already read The Love Killers? Try more Jackie Collins! The Lucky Santangelo series 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky''s Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story The World is Full series 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women

A story taking place on either side of Lethal Seduction finds celebrity magazine writer Madison Castelli digging into her mob hitman father''s past in order to discover the truth about her mother''s death and encountering a vortex of greed, lust, and deception that threatens her life. Reprint.

In the deliciously shocking, wickedly funny, and highly absorbing wild ride, master storyteller Jackie Collins delivers a decadent and compulsive account of sex, ambition, and deadly revenge centered around a group of over-indulged Hollywood offspring about to discover themselves—in some cases, with grave consequences. . . The Hollywood Five are the kids of privilege—a clique of jaded twenty-somethings trying to find their own footing in the glitzed-out world of their parents'' making. One may imagine that having everything you''ve ever wanted handed to you makes for quite the satisfying life, and maybe it does. . .until murder shatters their idyllic existence for good. Coltish bad-girl Jordanna Levitt is the daughter of a powerful producer and legendary movie star mother, who craves more from life than velvet-rope premiers and all-night parties but can''t seem to find that missing thing that makes her tick. Sassy, leggy, shopping-obsessed redhead Cheryl Landers has little perception of life beyond the shops on Rodeo Drive until she makes the acquaintance of a Hollywood madam and discovers a lucrative new pastime to keep her busy. Junior agent Grant Lennon, Jr. has an insatiable need to bed starlets and is more than happy to audition "actresses" for Cheryl''s new enterprise. Munchausen headcase Marjory Sanderson is the queen of inventing illnesses and phobias to try and get her father''s attention, failing each and every time. And gorgeous Shep Worth does whatever he can to keep his sexual proclivities private. But everything''s about to come to a head when a recently released psycho-killer emerges, hellbent on getting revenge against the gang. Add to the mix an ex-NYPD detective searching for his kidnapped daughter and a brilliant, beautiful journalist way ahead of the cops in putting the pieces of solving the crime together and you get the kind of multilayered, richly faceted, and high-octane thrill ride that only Jackie Collins can deliver! "Collins (Hollywood Wives; Hollywood Husbands) grabs fans with a no-holds-barred (and no subtlety shown) surefire bestseller spun around the disaffected children of Hollywood moguls." - Publishers Weekly Read the entire Hollywood Series: 1. Hollywood Wives 2.Hollywood Husbands 3. Hollywood Kids 4. Hollywood Wives: The Next Generation 5. Hollywood Divorces

First published in 1968, The World is Full of Married Men was branded as "shocking," especially coming from a female author but despite being banned in several countries for its scandalous content became a #1 bestseller in just two weeks! Always ahead of her time, in her racy debut, Jackie Collins flips on its head the hypocritical double standard of it being okay for men to sleep around but not for women. Successful London ad executive David Cooper is still sexy at forty. Plus, he''s got money and power, and therefore, any woman he wants for as long as he wants. His marriage to his nagging wife, Linda, has never gotten in the way of that. When gorgeous starlet Claudia Parker enters the picture, he becomes so smitten that he''s ready to divorce Linda to marry Claudia. But Claudia has no intentions of being shackled by a ring on her finger. When the relationship falls apart, he vies to get his wife back. Except Linda''s already moved on, swept up in a racy romance with Hollywood producer Jay Grossman. Despite David''s pleas, there''s no way she''s giving up her glamorous new lifestyle for the likes of him. David soon becomes a broken shell of a man, facing his fifties alone. As his once-meteoric career success takes a catastrophic dive, he finds comfort in the bottle and in the arms of his dowdy secretary, Harriet, while Linda''s life only gets better. Will there be a redemption for David? Or will karma get the last laugh in this sizzling, fast-paced, and thoroughly entertaining page-turner--the novel that launched Collins into her role as the Queen of flashy fiction. Read both of The World is Full series, as well as all the New York Times bestselling books by Jackie Collins! 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women The Stud Series 1. The Stud 2. The Bitch The Lucky Santangelo series 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky''s Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story

"Contains... all the goodies that make today''s bestsellers." – New York Post In the internationally bestselling first book of the iconic Lucky Santangelo series, smart, sexy and savvy Lucky Santangelo finds running her family''s criminal empire exhilarating. She will do whatever it takes to ensure her self-made mob boss father, Gino, doesn''t return from his self-imposed exile. But of course, Gino has other plans. Lucky tries to enlist the help of Costa Zennocotti, her father''s right-hand man but quickly learns his loyalty lies only with Gino. . . at least for now. As Lucky impressively plots to keep control, suspense builds through a series of interwoven stories, past and present, that create a rich tantalizing tapestry of intrigue involving an unforgettable cast of characters. There''s Lucky''s younger brother, Dario, who''s being terrorized by his manipulative male lover. There''s Steven Berkely, the charismatic lawyer Lucky gets trapped with in an elevator during the New York City blackout of 1977. And then there''s Steven''s mother, Carrie, the elegant society wife, who''s being blackmailed to keep the shocking events of her past concealed—and by an adversary that may hit too close to home. As secrets old and new are revealed, Jackie Collins''s masterful storytelling sweeps readers from the height of the family''s power in the 1970s, to the streets of 1920s New York City, where the crime enterprise first originated, from the playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas, in a steamy, sensual, page-turning epic saga that builds to a stunning climax and leaves you yearning for more. Adapted in the 90s into a highly successful NBC mini-series, the Santangelo novels are currently being developed for TV once again by Working Title Productions and the updated series is set to be compulsive, sexy and totally binge-worthy! "Chances should be called The Godfather goes to bed." – CNN "Chances starts out with a bang – and never lets up for over 600 sex-packed pages." – Variety Read the whole Lucky Santangelo series! 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky''s Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story

How did Lucky Santangelo become the kick-ass woman she is today? Only bestselling author Jackie Collins can tell in this prequel to all of the Santangelo novels, featuring a young, beautiful and headstrong teenaged Lucky Lucky Saint is a fifteen-year-old wild child who discovered her mother''s murdered body floating in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. She is the daughter of the notorious Gino, who''s kept her cloistered in their Bel Air mansion ever since. But she''s about to discover the world: boys, sex, drugs, and rock ''n'' roll. And no one can stop her now... CONFESSIONS OF A WILD CHILD Lucky navigates her teen years-from first kisses and brushes with famous older men to attending boarding school and adventuring through exotic Greek islands-as Gino, a powerful Vegas hotel owner, struggles to control her. Meanwhile, her brother, Dario, is too scared to tell Gino that he''s gay. But fearless Lucky will not be held back by her father...or anyone else. Soon she has no choice but to strike out on her own path-one that will lead her to become the powerful and charismatic woman that she was destined to be... "Jackie Collins knows a thing or two about life in the fast lane...[with] her wry sense of humor and spitfire approach." - Bazaar

Hollywood seems to be all glittering premieres, dazzling movie sets, and fabulous parties, but underneath the glamour and gloss is the seamy, sultry underbelly that Jackie Collins so masterfully exposes in the shocking, passionate world of Sinners ! London-trained actress Sunday Simmons dreams of better acting jobs than the current film she''s in with top leading man Jack Marlin. Her only scene is entirely topless, which makes her feel cheap and exploited. She doesn''t realize, though, that the worst is still ahead. Sunday has become the main object of frustrated limo driver and star stalker Herbert Lincoln Jefferson''s most depraved fantasies. . . and he will stop at nothing to make those fantasies come true. At one time, actor Charlie Brick was at the top of his game, with women throwing themselves at him—especially those yearning for stardom. Marriage be damned, he took every opportunity presented to cheat. Except now, he pines for his wife, Lorna, who finally had enough and left him taking their two children—then quickly remarried. Desperate and destroyed, Charlie''s failures spiral him into rampant drug use before meeting starlet Dindi Sydne and marrying her in an alcoholic haze. But what seems like redemption might quickly flip into a painful mid-life reckoning as especially in Hollywood, things are rarely as they seem. . . With everything from sex cults to acid trips in the desert, this fast-paced, page-turning, raucous romp does not disappoint! "After 42 years on the job, and with her patented blend of explicit sex and Hollywood gossip, Jackie Collins has become queen of a genre all her own. . . . Collins defines her characters well with authentic sounding dialogue." — Winnipeg Free Press Already read Sinners? Try more by Jackie Collins. The Lucky Santangelo series 1. Chances 2. Lucky 3. Lady Boss 4. Vendetta: Lucky''s Revenge 5. Dangerous Kiss 6. Drop Dead Beautiful 7. Poor Little Bitch Girl 8. Goddess of Vengeance 9. Confessions of a Wild Child - Lucky: The Early Years 10. The Santangelos 11. A Santangelo Story The World is Full series 1. The World is Full of Married Men 2. The World is Full of Divorced Women