Thrill (Abridged) Audiobook

Lara Ivory is a movie star -- an incandescent beauty with cat-like green eyes,

full luscious lips and honey blond hair. Lara has been at the top of her

profession for eight years and everybody loves her. But at thirty-two she

cannot find a man who can handle being with such an exquisite object of

desire.

Her ex-husband, Richard Barry, an extremely successful veteran film director,

is currently married to Nikki, a feisty brunette clothes designer on movies.

Nikki is a strong woman who tries her best to keep Richard under control --

something Lara couldn't manage. But Richard is not as pliable as Nikki

thinks.

When Thrill! opens, the three of them are great friends, shooting a

movie in the South of France.

Every man desires Lara, but because of her insecurities she feels they only

want her for her beauty and fame. Lara is searching for something more.

Nikki can't wait to get her hooked up with a guy, because she suspects Richard

still harbors an unhealthy crush on his ex-wife -- a crush bordering on obsession.

After the South of France location is over, Lara goes straight to the Hamptons to

shoot her next movie -- The Dreamer, while

Richard and Nikki return to L.A. and their Malibu house. Richard starts post

production, and Nikki awaits the arrival of her fifteen year old daughter,

Summer, who is due to visit from Chicago. Nikki gave birth to Summer when she

was sixteen and married to Sheldon Weston -- an older psychiatrist who got

custody of their only daughter because Summer chose to stay with him when they

divorced.

Joey Lorenzo is a street-smart, unbelievably handsome, small time actor with a

shady past. At thirty, he's been around and then some. He had a couple of

meaningful breaks in movies while he was living with New York agent, Madelaine

Francis, a woman twenty years older than him --but that was six years ago --

before he vanished with seven thousand dollars of Madelaine's money. She

hasn't heard from him since.

At the beginning of Thrill! Joey returns from New York, apologetic and

full of excuses. He's hot to get his movie career back on track -- and uses

Madelaine to do it for him. She gets him a role in The Dreamer, and he

takes off for the Hamptons location.

One look at Lara Ivory and he realizes he has finally met his destiny. But he

also knows he has to play it cool --because Lara is a woman who can have any

man she wants. And more than anything he wants her to want him.

Nikki is making a career transition from movie clothes designer to producer.

She has bought the rights to Revenge, a true story about a woman who is

raped and beaten by three men, and then systematically tracks them down and

kills them. Nikki has supervised a script, and wants Lara to play the lead role

of the rape victim.

Richard is against it because he thinks the explicit sex and violence will

exploit Lara. Nikki ignores his advice and pursues Lara for the role.

Lara agrees to do it, even though she knows the violence in the story will

bring back many painful, long buried memories from her past.

By the time Lara returns to L.A. to shoot Revenge, Joey is ensconced in

her life. He has gotten her hooked sexually, making her feel she has met the

man who can be everything to her. Both of them have something to hide, so even

though she knows nothing about him, to everyone's concern, she doesn't seem to

care. She and Joey are together, and that's all that matters.

Nikki hires a hot director, Mick Stefan, a young Quentin Tarantino with plenty

of attitude. Mick in turn brings in Aiden Sean, a burned-out movie star with a

drug problem to play the main rapist. Both men have major problems.

And then the wild and precocious fifteen year old Summer arrives to stay and

the trouble really starts.

Summer is a wild child, way out of control -- into sex, men and money. L.A.

seems the perfect place to escape from the unhealthy relationship she has with

her controlling father. Especially when she hooks up with Betty, a pretty

nineteen year old, who introduces her to Darlene, an infamous Hollywood

Madam.

Moving in and out of Thrill! is an unnamed character who tells his

story in the first person from the age of sixteen to the present day. He is the

wild card -- a man who lives life on the edge -- violence only a breath

away.

Is it Joey Lorenzo? Aiden Sean? Mick Stefan? Richard Barry?

The reader cannot guess until the violence packed climax -- when secrets and

passions ignite into a crazed roller coaster of survival.

Thrill! is a psychological sexual thriller about relationships,

secrets, violence and red-hot passions.

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"I love Jackie Collins, so I thought this was great. Lots of action, great characters and happy endings for the characters that deserved it:) slight overuse of the word 'merely' but other than that this is a really good story."

— Jamie (5 out of 5 stars)