But even with that relationship and her expansion plans for international Scruples boutiques, Billy is still the poor little rich girl, searching for a man who will love her for something other than her millions.Ī major tragedy sends Billy spinning into an emotional abyss and she retreats to Paris, where she has a torrid affair with a struggling yet dashing American artist, all the while using an alias, just to make sure he loves her for her. Bonding with Gigi helps Billy recover from a devastating miscarriage that hastens the downward spiral of her marriage. But before her union with Vito finally hits the skids she discovers she has a spunky 16-year-old stepdaughter, a secret Vito’s been keeping from her since they met. What do you give the heroine who has everything? You might make her marriage collapse at the beginning of the book, which Krantz does with Billy. At the end of that book, our glamorous heroine, Billy Ikehorn Orsini, seemed destined to live happily ever after turning from ugly duckling into gorgeous swan, marrying major money, creating a retail empire (Scruples is the name of her fabulously chic Beverly Hills boutique), surviving widowhood and finally marrying promising producer Vito Orsini.īilly, Vito and boutique employees Spider Elliott and Valentine O’Neill are back for the sequel, along with some new characters who carry the story along through the mid-1970s and into the ‘80s.
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