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Killer Diamonds
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Vivienne Winter is one of the most recognizable women on the planet. After decades in the spotlight as an Oscar-winning film star and famous beauty, she has now decided to auction her multimillion dollar jewellery collection for charity
Quite literarily, everyone wants a bit of the action. Christine Smith is one of them – herself a jewellery expert working for an auction house. She’s desperate to secure the sale of Vivienne Winter’s gem collection but is worried that some of the more snobby auction houses might beat her to it.
Someone else after the diamonds is Vivienne’s handsome, spoilt and sexy playboy grandson Angel. He is the heir to her fortune and so is very annoyed that she is selling what he sees as his
Cue chaos and drama on a Hollywood scale.
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Geneva
An auction is taking place at a very prestigious city and auction house where diamonds are well loved and celebrated. This is the city where the water fountain in the middle of the lake provides the spritz whilst the diamonds provide the glitz.
Rome 1966
Glamorous film starlet Vivienne Winter is filming in the city and getting even more involved in scandal than she is used to. A passionate affair with Randon Cliffe for example will do that to a girl.
He showers her with diamonds – the ones that cause all the trouble. Each one has some significance to a time they spent together or to celebrate a film.
They want to take pictures of the star all over the city from the Spanish steps to the street where all the posh shops are including Hermes. This is a woman with her diamonds to be celebrated
There are mentions too of events and film sets briefly in Seville in 1970 and then Paris in 1990. All in all, this is a world of celebrity, fame and money. More than that it is a world of hedonism. Breaking the boundaries and shocking the reader?
Turn down the heating. This book will make you hot.
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Author/ Guide: Rebecca Chance Destination: Geneva, Rome Departure Time: 1960s, 2000s
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