Lovers & Players: A Novel

Written by Jackie Collins

Narrated by Isabel Keating

Jackie Collins is back—in this deliciously scandalous novel, Lovers & Players. And she's giving her readers a revealing look into the private realms of her fabulously rich and sexy cast of characters.

Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a high-powered trip from Park Avenue to Brooklyn.

In Lovers and Players, the Diamond family's power extends from coast to coast. Max—a real estate tycoon; Chris—a Hollywood lawyer; and Jett—a young, handsome ex-druggie, now a successful model in Italy, must finally come face to face with their tyrannical father, Red, who has been controlling their world for as long as they can remember.

Working as Red's housekeeper is Diahann, a beautiful black ex-singer. Her stunning bi-racial nineteen-year-old daughter, Liberty—a waitress who is a would-be singer herself—does not approve of her mother working as a housekeeper. Liberty has dreams of her own and while she pursues them, Damon P. Donnell, married hip-hop mogul supreme, pursues her.

Amy Scott-Simon, a beguilingly pretty young New York heiress, in engaged to marry Max Diamond. At her bachelorette party she runs into Jett, Max's younger brother. Jet has no idea who Amy is. She also doesn't realize who he is. A one-night fling leads to major complications.

As the lives of these characters intertwine, power, money, fame and love are the ties that bind—emotionally and otherwise—in this highly charged love story about family relationships and deadly choices.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Feb 7, 2006
• ISBN: 9781593978815

Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins has been called a “raunchy moralist” by the director Louis Malle and “Hollywood’s own Marcel Proust” by Vanity Fair. With over 500 million copies of her books sold in more than forty countries, and with thirty-two New York Times bestsellers to her credit, she is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. Six of her novels have been adapted for film or TV. Collins was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England in 2013 for her services to literature and charity. When accepting the honor she said to the Queen, “Not bad for a school drop-out”—a revelation capturing her belief that both passion and determination can lead to big dreams coming true. She lived in Beverly Hills where she had a front-row seat to the lives she so accurately captured in her compulsive plotlines. She was a creative force, a trailblazer for women in fiction, and in her own words “a kick-ass writer!” Her fascinating life as a writer and icon is explored in the CNN Films and Netflix documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story. Discover more at JackieCollins.com.

Reviews for Lovers & Players

[reinventmondays · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Full of surprises with every turn.

[aoibhealfae · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I got this free from a Music Appreciation night in a bookstore. Enjoyed it immensely. But too many characters and side stories made it seems crowded. Its like a harlequin series of books in one collection, except its simplified into this thing. Its a pretty book, good plot twist, but rather predictable.

[frozenplums · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

My favorite Jackie Collins to date. Mind-bendingly intricate plot, in-depth three dimensional characters, fantastic twists and reveals, and, as always with Collins, the occasional smutty sex scene. One of the few cases where I wish there was a sequel.

[ennie_2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I was waiting for a documentary screening to start and another early arriver struck up a conversation with me. I didn't really want to talk since I was reading "Lovers and Players" and had just gotten to the part where virginal Amy realizes her pre-wedding fling was her intended's brother. I tried to explain this and it sounded hopelessly trashy - just the way I like my Jackie Collins books. The ending wasn't quite as predictable as usual.

[whimsyblue · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Naughty, sexy, dirty scoundrels, oh wait, it's Jackie Collins!

[labelleaurore · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

In all the books written by Jackie Collins, Lovers & Players, to me, was her worst one. Repeatiting story and scandals and too many caracters involved. Yes, I was expecting this in reading Jackie Collins'books but this one was déjà vue for me.

[bookwormteri · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Surprisingly not as smutty as her older stuff, but still a fun read.

[msbeautiful · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Not Jackie's best, but definetely entertaining