Dangerous Kiss (Lucky Santangelo Series) » (Reissue)

In the world of sensational fiction, Jackie Collins is considered the Queen of Trash, the Duchess of Dirty Books. It might be easier to dog-ear the pages in her novel that don't have a steamy bedroom interlude. But even more than sex, the characters in her show-biz soap operas lust after something else: power.

She's the seductively beautiful, street-smart star of four Jackie Collins blockbusters. She's the survivor who fought for everything she has: fame and power in Hollywood and happiness in marriage. She's the strong, exciting woman who dares to take chances—and always wins. She's Lucky Santangelo, and she's back in Jackie Collins' scintillating New York Times bestseller Dangerous Kiss.

Driven by faw fury when a member of her family is gunned down in a random holdup, Lucky is hunting for a killer throughout glamarous Los Angeles. But her quest for revenge tests her relationship with her husband, charismatic writer and director Lennie Golden. Then, suddenly, into her life comes a man from her past—a manwith a dangerous kiss...

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

[Reviewed by "Austin Powers":]"Steady now, don't have a thrombo...Jackie's No. 1 Bond girl Lucky Santangelo is pretty shagadelic herself...one smashing baby, baby....Am I right or am I right? Oh, behave!"

Q: Isn't there a lot of sex in your books?

A: Of course! People enjoy having great sex, and I'm sure they enjoy reading about it! Erotic sex as opposed to rude sex -- which is what a lot of men write. I like to make the sex in my books fun and a turn-on, but I also write about married sex, which I think is lacking in most novels. I write books that people can have a good time with in every way, so that if they pick up one of my novels, they can get lost in a visual trip, because I am writing about Hollywood from the inside, not the outside. Lucky and Lennie in Dangerous Kiss have great married sex!

Q: What is it about Lucky that makes her such a popular heroine?

A: Lucky is the kind of woman who does all the things that most women would love to do, and says all the things that most women would love to say, and yet Lucky says it to them and gets away with it. She is strong, sexy, dynamic, and dangerous! She is the woman we would all like to be!

Q: What's in store for Lucky after Dangerous Kiss?

A: Dangerous Kiss is the fifth book about Lucky Santangelo, and I could go on writing about her forever, because I am writing about her life and the things that happen to her. But I am also very fond of a character I created in L.A. Connections, Madison Castelli, and I think I shall write about Madison in the new book I am working on now, Lethal Seduction. Madison is also a dangerous, sexy, smart woman and a strong character. However, there will never be another Lucky Santangelo!