- Hardcover: 498 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (April 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671897063
- ISBN-13: 978-0671897062
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,359,600 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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They drove the roller coaster of ambition to mind-bending heights -- three extraordinary people whose secrets, sins, and shameless hungers led them to the farthest outposts of lust. With her dangerous crystalline eyes and air of quiet mystery, ravishing golden predator Jill Fleming rose from a nightmare childhood, seducing men and women alike as she exploited their private fantasies. Crowned by wild strawberry blond hair, blue-collar princess Leslie Chamberlain fled her small town to become queen of one of the nation's hottest advertising agencies, until one reckless night with Mr. Wrong nearly destroyed her, and another man's velvet caresses became an irresistible addiction that would forever change her glittering dream. Jordan Lazarus' brilliance, good looks, and Midas touch propelled him from a Pennsylvania assembly line to headlines as America's richest man. But not even a gallery of willing seductresses could obliterate a long buried obsession that threatened to blaze white-hot again. From Chicago to Detroit and New York's luxurious gold coast, the three come together...risking the ultimate betrayal, and abandoning all the rules for the fruits of forbidden passion.
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Three unforgettable characters whose lives collide in a tangle of ambition, fantasies and dark appetites.
Jill Fleming rose from a nightmare childhood to become a beautiful predator who enticed men and women, always leaving behind a wake of aching desire, and always looking ahead...
Leslie Chamberlain thought only success at the nation's hottest ad agency could satisfy her, until one man's velvet caresses became an addiction that would forever change her glittering dream...
Jordan Lazarus had a razor-sharp mind, a vast business empire, and gallery of willing seductresses. But a long-buried obsession threatened to blaze white-hot again...
From the cutthroat corporate towers of Chicago, Detroit and New York, to Long Island's luxurious gold coast, where scandal smoulders restlessly beneath the polished veneer of wealth, these three will come together...reckless players in a high-stakes game, risking the ultimate betrayal, and abandoning the rules for the fruits of forbidden passion. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
A sensuous, fast-paced, powerful story that is very gripping
8 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
If you are not already an Elizabeth Gage devotee, you are in for one special treat. Ms.Gage possesses a rare gift for words, an unique talent for vibrant phrasing that carries the plot along and develops an intimate view of her characters. Her writing has always been extremely erotic and quite graphic, but without being offensive. Her current novel, INTIMATE, is no exception. It chronicles the intricately-weaved relationships between a man and two women, tormented souls with secrets in their pasts. Gage, with her uncanny ability to bring alive raw emotion on the printed page, transports you to to the presence of company who find that love can be the cruelest of weapons. Utterly compelling and absolutely rivetting. Bravo!
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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25 July 2010
Format:Paperback
Simon & Schuster did not want Elizabeth Gage. Joni Evans, then the wife of Dick Snyder (who later ran Little Golden Books into the ground, as was reported by Publishers Weekly many times), rejected the book on behalf of S&S. Bill Grose, the head of Pocket Books, somehow got around her, and S&S exercised its topping privilege to win Jay Garon's auction and acquire A GLIMPSE OF STOCKING for $511,500. Garon's contract was a good one: the author retained all rights except North American. With foreign sales, the earnings reached $1.4 million.
S&S didn't want Gage because they had Jackie Collins, that great talent, and Judith Michael, the nerdy husband-and-wife writing team. They were also offended that this first novelist from Glenview, Illinois, had so much more talent than their own authors.
At a lunch at the Four Seasons Restaurant, Michael Korda and his then special friend Trish Lande tried to get Gage and her husband to change to a writing husband-and-wife team like Judith Michael. Gage and her husband refused. S&S walked out of the Four Seasons while the author was in the ladies' room.
Later Korda tried to get Gage to take a lower royalty than the one specified in the contract. Gage refused.After six weeks of pressure. S&S caved.
The editing, by a faceless group of editors, was finished, the book was ready to go to press, when Korda turned the script over to Lande, saying "See if you can find anything wrong with this."
Lande covered the manuscript with coffee stains and cut out chapters which were crucial to the momentum of the book. In a long-distance conference call to Gage in Hawaii, Korda told her, "You have to make Trish's changes. You have to understand why it is so important that you surrender to us."
Gage lectured Korda and Lande over the phone about Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby, which which Fitzgerald stops the action to simply give the names of the people who visited West Egg that summer. "My chapters are far more important to the movement of the story than Fitzgerald's Chapter 4."
Chastened, furious, Korda said "I guess Trish and I should read those chapters again." In the end the chapters stayed. The book became a New York Times bestseller, But S&S did not forgive. They withdrew Gage's second novel, Pandora's Box, from the stores after one week "for lack of interest."
Jay Garon, furious, moved Gage to Pocket Books, where she received big advances but zero promotion.
As a result, Gage never became a brand name novelist, but her five novels for S&S/Pocket and her two books for Mira remain cult classics with avid fans around the world. Her unique combination of violence, sex, and psychological depth set her far above the Krantzes and Collinses and Bradfords of the writing world.
S&S didn't want Gage because they had Jackie Collins, that great talent, and Judith Michael, the nerdy husband-and-wife writing team. They were also offended that this first novelist from Glenview, Illinois, had so much more talent than their own authors.
At a lunch at the Four Seasons Restaurant, Michael Korda and his then special friend Trish Lande tried to get Gage and her husband to change to a writing husband-and-wife team like Judith Michael. Gage and her husband refused. S&S walked out of the Four Seasons while the author was in the ladies' room.
Later Korda tried to get Gage to take a lower royalty than the one specified in the contract. Gage refused.After six weeks of pressure. S&S caved.
The editing, by a faceless group of editors, was finished, the book was ready to go to press, when Korda turned the script over to Lande, saying "See if you can find anything wrong with this."
Lande covered the manuscript with coffee stains and cut out chapters which were crucial to the momentum of the book. In a long-distance conference call to Gage in Hawaii, Korda told her, "You have to make Trish's changes. You have to understand why it is so important that you surrender to us."
Gage lectured Korda and Lande over the phone about Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby, which which Fitzgerald stops the action to simply give the names of the people who visited West Egg that summer. "My chapters are far more important to the movement of the story than Fitzgerald's Chapter 4."
Chastened, furious, Korda said "I guess Trish and I should read those chapters again." In the end the chapters stayed. The book became a New York Times bestseller, But S&S did not forgive. They withdrew Gage's second novel, Pandora's Box, from the stores after one week "for lack of interest."
Jay Garon, furious, moved Gage to Pocket Books, where she received big advances but zero promotion.
As a result, Gage never became a brand name novelist, but her five novels for S&S/Pocket and her two books for Mira remain cult classics with avid fans around the world. Her unique combination of violence, sex, and psychological depth set her far above the Krantzes and Collinses and Bradfords of the writing world.
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