PASSION...<br><br>In a tale as timely as <i>Scruples</i>, as compelling as <i>Dazzle</i>, as intriguing as <i>Mistral's Daughter</i>, Judith Krantz launches three innocent<br>beauties on the city of fashion and love....<br><br>SCANDAL...<br><br>It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management.&#160;&#160;Three of its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collection of bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi--and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract.&#160;&#160;But the agency's owner, Justine Loring, is furious.&#160;&#160;Only she knows that Lombardi's billionaire backer, Jacques Necker, has set her up, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, and meeting him face-to-face.<br><br>GLAMOUR...<br><br>But Justine isn't about to play his game.&#160;&#160;She dispatches these three sensational girls--the classic Minnesota blond, the African-American goddess, and the moody Tennessee redhead--in care of her second-in-command, fiery, droll Francesca Severino.&#160;&#160;Little does Justine know how their two weeks of discovery<br>and love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan that will change her own life.<br><br>SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN STYLE.