Justine Rendal Livres

100000 Megabyte herz - bk151; Ueberreuter Verlag; Justine Rendal; Paperback; 1999

Don't get mad. Get everything. When their best friend commits suicide over her divorce, Elise, Brenda and Annie decide enough is enough. Each was crucial to her husband's career. But now that the men are successful, they've traded in their wives for newer, blonder models. Over lunch one day they form the First Wives Club. But this is no support group. This is the SAS in Chanel. Painstakingly, inexorably, they plan the downfall of the men who've wrecked their lives - and know that revenge has never tasted sweeter...

Mary Jane Moran is an out-of-work actress. She should have been a star. A brilliant off-Broadway success, she was too fat, too plain and - at 34 - too old for Hollywood. To cap it all, Tinseltown has also stolen the only man she ever loved. Mary Jane Moran is ready for revenge. Two years, 40 pounds and $67,000 worth of plastic surgery later, she gets it in the person of Jahne Moore - thin, drop-dead gorgeous and soon to be the hottest property in Hollywood. Buy Mary Jane finds that dazzling beauty and meteoric success bring problems of their own...

At forty, Sylvie Schiffer appears to have the perfect life in Shaker Heights: a beautiful home, two ideal teenage children, and a successful husband with a thriving luxury car dealership. Yet, she longs for passion and romance—moonlit cruises, hand-holding, and stargazing. Sylvie laments, "When you're married, you don't even get kissed on the mouth." With the twins off to college and the business flourishing, she believes it's time to rekindle her marriage. However, her world shatters when she discovers incriminating credit card receipts revealing her husband Bob's affair. Shocked and furious, Sylvie fantasizes about revenge, but her mother urges her to consider saving the marriage. Ignoring that advice, Sylvie confronts Marla, the other woman, only to find a surprising connection: Marla resembles a younger version of herself, and despite enjoying Bob's affections—flowers, hot sex, and romantic dinners—she admits to yearning for a husband and home. "When you're single," Marla sighs, "you have to smell good twenty-four hours a day." Instead of seeking revenge, Sylvie devises a clever plan to turn the situation in their favor. But will their scheme lead to fulfillment, or will they end up heartbroken?