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A RAVISHING BEAUTY WHOSE SINFUL SECRETS THREATEN WHAT SHE HOPES IS A GLITTERING FUTURE...AN UP AND COMING HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR WHO CRAVES REVENGE EVEN MORE THAN SUCCESS...AN ECCENTRIC, WHITE-HAIRED BALLERINA WHOSE DREAMS THE NAZIS COULD NOT DESTROY...A BRITISH FILM IDOL WHOSE TALENT ON SCREEN IS EQUALLED ONLY BY HIS TALENT IN BED....A TEENAGED VIXEN FOR WHOM LOVE IS A GAME AND MEN ARE JUST THE PAWNS SHE MANEUVERS...A SADISTIC ITALIAN FILM PRODUCER WHO LUSTS AFTER POWER AND PERVERTED SEX...JOAN COLLINS HAS ASSEMBLED A FASCINATING CAST OF CHARACTERS IN HER SECOND NOVEL, ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. THEIR LIVES ALREADY LINKED BY PERSONAL TRAGEDY--AND WAR CRIMES THAT WERE LEFT UNPUNISHED--THEY UNEXPECTEDLY MEET AGAIN ON A MOVIE LOCATION IN ACAPULCO, WHERE NO ONE'S SCANDALOUS PAST--OR PRESENT--CAN LONG REMAIN SAFELY HIDDEN FROM VIEW. THERE, ONE OF THEM WILL BE DRIVEN TO MADNESS, DRIVEN TO COMIIT AN ACT OF MURDER--DRIVEN BY LOVE AND DESIRE AND HATE.
A RAVISHING BEAUTY WHOSE SINFUL SECRETS THREATEN WHAT SHE HOPES IS A GLITTERING FUTURE...AN UP AND COMING HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR WHO CRAVES REVENGE EVEN MORE THAN SUCCESS...AN ECCENTRIC, WHITE-HAIRED BALLERINA WHOSE DREAMS THE NAZIS COULD NOT DESTROY...A BRITISH FILM IDOL WHOSE TALENT ON SCREEN IS EQUALLED ONLY BY HIS TALENT IN BED....A TEENAGED VIXEN FOR WHOM LOVE IS A GAME AND MEN ARE JUST THE PAWNS SHE MANEUVERS...A SADISTIC ITALIAN FILM PRODUCER WHO LUSTS AFTER POWER AND PERVERTED SEX...JOAN COLLINS HAS ASSEMBLED A FASCINATING CAST OF CHARACTERS IN HER SECOND NOVEL, ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. THEIR LIVES ALREADY LINKED BY PERSONAL TRAGEDY--AND WAR CRIMES THAT WERE LEFT UNPUNISHED--THEY UNEXPECTEDLY MEET AGAIN ON A MOVIE LOCATION IN ACAPULCO, WHERE NO ONE'S SCANDALOUS PAST--OR PRESENT--CAN LONG REMAIN SAFELY HIDDEN FROM VIEW. THERE, ONE OF THEM WILL BE DRIVEN TO MADNESS, DRIVEN TO COMIIT AN ACT OF MURDER--DRIVEN BY LOVE AND DESIRE AND HATE.