Life at the top of the A-list is fabulous, but it’s a long way to the ground if you fall—and the cameras are always waiting to publicly humiliate you if you do. Jessica, Mary Anne, Lydia, and Celeste have stayed at the top by sticking together. The last time they collaborated on a project, the film was a huge success, launching über-agent Jessica’s boutique management company, making Mary Anne the hottest new screenwriter in Hollywood, landing Lydia the top spot at Worldwide Pictures, and solidifying Celeste’s position as the queen of Tinseltown. But this time, as these powerful movie mavens are called to the set, each of them has a lot more to lose. At thirty (ahem . . . thirty-six), actress Celeste Solange is starting to feel her age. Tiny lines are beginning to appear near her eyes, and she’s wondering how long she can hold on to her A-list status. But that’s not her biggest problem—not by a long shot. A compromising DVD she made with her husband during the wild early days of their marriage is making the rounds, threatening to break out onto the Internet and ruin her image and her career. So Celeste turns to her girlfriends for help—good thing they’re some of the most powerful players in town.Mary Anne, Lydia, and Jessica have troubles of their own. Mary Anne has started seeing Holden Humphrey, the hottest leading man in Hollywood, and everyone in America is watching—including his crazy young stalker, who wants Mary Anne out of the picture. Lydia is busy running a studio, putting out fires, and playing politics with the big mouths and big egos of the entertainment elite, and now someone is trying to blackmail her. Jessica is juggling a family, a demanding career, and an even more demanding list of clients. And meanwhile, publicist Kiki Dee seems to have a hand in all the secrets . . . and she’s willing to do anything to keep her spot at the top of the Hollywood PR machine. Can the Hollywood Girls Club hold their lives together and get a film made amid all the craziness?That’s life in Hollywood—where the right friends, and the secrets they know, can make or break a career.From Publishers WeeklyThe ripsnorter sequel to Hollywood Girls Club revolves around sex and plastic surgery secrets that, if revealed, would destroy movie queen Celeste Cici Solange and likely sink movie studios and destroy high-power industry marriages. If that sounds like fun, it is. Our world, our business, has nothing to do with substance or reality, lectures Kiki Dee, the bad-ass publicist who collects stars' secrets like Donald Trump amasses real estate. But superficial doesn't come cheap in Hollywood, where A-lister Cici covertly goes under the knife knowing her public expected her to personify youth and to age gracefully and that aging gracefully meant aging very little at all. The surfacing of Cici's other secret—a sex tape made by her ex—sets off a madcap plan to get it back before it hits big on the internet or her husband (and Worldwide Pictures honcho) Ted Robinoff finds out that it exists. Along the way, screenwriter Mary Anne Meyers rises to celebrity on the arm of screen idol Holden Humphrey; Jessica Caufield transitions from agent to big-time manager-producer-wife-and-mom; and production chief Lydia Albright's uncertain about her future. Marr's prose is fast and sharp, and she keeps the plots flying. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistIn this lively sequel, Marr revisits the female power players from The Hollywood Girls Club (2007). Actress Celeste Solange is desperately trying to keep a lid on a sex tape made during her first marriage, to a kinky producer. Screenwriter Mary Anne Meyers is in the throes of a passionate new relationship with handsome movie star Holden Humphrey, but his ex-girlfriend, the mentally unstable starlet Vieve Dyson, will do anything to get him back. Producer Lydia Albright, the new president of Worldwide Pictures, knows keeping Celeste’s sex tape under wraps is the best way to ensure that Worldwide’s multimillion dollar deal with Celeste doesn’t go down the drain, so with the help of agent Jessica Caulfield-Fox, she tries to purchase the video and find out who’s been sending her taunting letters. While the women rally to keep one scandal under wraps, publicist Kiki Dee may have found another that trumps even a scandalous sex tape. Marr’s second novel is frothy, gossipy fun for US and People magazine addicts. --Kristine Huntley

Returning home isn't always easy...Brinn Bartoli returns to Powder Springs, Colorado jilted and heartbroken. Her San Francisco business is now owned by her philandering former lover. Brinn is ready to run the family business—Bea & Barbara's Bakery. Now all Brinn has to do is convince her controlling mom she is capable of taking care of the bakery and her own life.But coming home is sometimes the best choice to make...Tyler Emerson returns to Powder Springs after his ex-wife abandons him and their daughter Charlotte for a new life and lover in New York City. Tyler knows that Powder Springs is the best place to raise Charlotte. She'll be surrounded by the loving arms of her aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Tyler has dedicated his life to raising his daughter in his hometown.A Christmas wish made with Christmas magic can come true...

Poppy Martin won't stay in one place for long. Home is whatever country in which her passport was last stamped. Running from a history of privilege and abuse, she plans to spend her life traveling the globe, keeping her heart safe and never calling one place home. Trevor Brice has exactly six more months of freedom. On his next birthday he must stop wandering the world. If he wants to work in the family business, which he doesn't, Trevor must return to Los Angeles to take his place by his mother's side. Otherwise, Trevor will be on his own, cut off, and no longer part of the Brice family fortune. Poppy wants no part of love. She's enjoyed her days (and nights) with Trevor but when he suggests a more permanent match, Poppy is off and running. Not the girl that would ever consider settling down, no matter her feelings for Trevor, Poppy is most definitely running from love.  

Nick North hates Christmas. His heart froze solid, five years before when the only woman he ever loved said no to his Christmas Eve proposal. Nick has no need for love, happily-ever-afters, and most definitely no need for Christmas. So when community activist Noel Klaus stands in the way of Nick's holiday plans to demolish Winter Hills and start construction on another strip mall, Nick determines that he will stop her. No matter what the cost. Noel Klaus fights every fight worth fighting. She dropped out of B-school to become a community activist. When, just before Christmas, Noel discovers that Winter Hills, her grandmother's retirement community, will soon face the wrecking ball, Noel springs into action. She will do everything in her power to ensure that Winter Hills remains even if it means confronting the one man she never ever wanted to see. Two people, torn apart by worldly desires, discover that love combined with Christmas magic may be impossible to overcome.

The ignored second son of a living Legend...Rhett Legend Delgado grew up unclaimed by his famous father. He lived his childhood in the shadows of his two well-known half siblings. Now it's his turn to grab the spotlight. A charismatic singer with a whiskey voice and sex appeal, his album should bound up the charts, especially if he follows the advice of Left Coast Record's new President, Tasha Jones. But there are compromises that Rhett doesn't want to make when it comes to his career or when it comes to his attraction to Tasha Jones.Rock stars only break your heart...Tasha Jones grew up in the music world. Her late father was the found of Left Coast Records. Now she's running the show. One thing she knows for sure is never fall for a musician. She did--once. She lost her heart and nearly lost her soul. Tasha swears that she will never date a musician again, especially not a musician who is signed to her label.An attraction that can't be denied...Tasha Jones can't ignore the heat that pulses between her and Rhett Legend Delgado. Nor, can she contain her desires for him. But she must, if she is to maintain her position as President at Left Coast and keep her heart safe. Is there a way for Tasha to keep Left Coast and Rhett? Or are they both simply too scarred from the pain of their individual pasts to let love grow between them?

A promise to keep... Honoring her mother's last wish, Lane Channing vows to follow her dreams. She takes the 'big risk' and leaves her small Kansas town behind and heads to LA, the city of dreams. She's got a stellar job lined up, an old jeep, and 20 bucks to last her to her first paycheck. Her hopes shatter when she arrives to find her job's been given to someone else. Now she's broke and if she doesn't do something fast will soon be living on the streets. Welcome to cutthroat -- Lane is most certainly not in Kansas anymore. On the cusp of success... Dillon MacAvoy has one goal -- to become a star -- whatever it takes. Even if it means honing his bad-boy can't-be-tamed-and-forever-single image. Besides the image isn't far from the truth. Dillon cares only about his younger brother and his career. He's on the brink of superstardom if he can just decide on the next right script. But for that, he needs a script reader he can trust. In a strange twist of fate... Lane Channing is Dillon's last chance. If Lane lasts the summer without becoming MacAvoy's latest conquest, she's guaranteed a job in entertainment. No problem, as long as she can ignore the heat that pulses through her every time Dillon is in the room. After all, love and commitment with a sweet, hometown girl would only ruin the Dillon MacAvoy brand.