I feel like she nailed the St. Regis I grew up there just living a mile away from my house spending brunches there and my dad was friends with the prior owners and felt like I was there in the book. Amanda was such a great and lovably flawed character but strong at the same time. Andre reminds me...
She remembered when she first saw Nathaniel and Robbie in the garden and shuddered. Instead of hiding in the rosebushes she should have confronted him and sent him away. She should have told Blake she didn’t care if they had to pay HELLO! two million dollars, Nathaniel wasn’t going to spoil their...
Cassie sat at a window table at Fenton’s café, sipping an espresso. She picked up a pack of sugar and then put it back on the table. Italian coffee was so bitter; she had to learn how to drink it black. She glanced at her watch. Alexis was joining her for afternoon tea but she was late. Cassie ch...
She dusted her cheeks with sparking blush and coated her eyelashes with Lancôme mascara. She rubbed shimmering lip gloss on her lips and dabbed her wrists with Estée Lauder’s Lovely. She pinned her hair with a ceramic clip and glanced at her watch. She had an early morning call and didn’t want to...
Portia groaned. “My body feels like it’s been strung up on a torture rack.” Hallie turned and glanced at Portia. “You look like you’re fifteen.” They lay on lounges beside the pool, their bodies coated with Acqua di Parma sunscreen. The rain of the previous weekend had given way to a week of bril...
She saw men in silk blazers and women in chiffon cocktail dresses. She inhaled the scent of cigars and perfume and felt a tightness in her chest. After she had left Lionel, she called Henry and asked him to meet her in the plaza. She thought about her conversation with Lionel and shivered. How co...
She had woken early and sat at her computer, eagerly transcribing her notes. She didn’t stop until the maids knocked on the door and replaced the platters of scrambled eggs and whole wheat toast with grilled vegetables and cold consommé. She bent down to tie her shoelace and suddenly a camera fla...
Everything about her suite was wonderful: the satin slippers she discovered in the closet and the wooden hairbrush on the dressing table and the silver platter of pastries and fruit salad that arrived at the door. But she had woken up feeling slightly odd. As if she’d had a dream she couldn’t rem...