<i>Lovers</i> is pure Krantz, an&#160;&#160;intoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and found&#160;&#160;among women and men who lure each other with potent&#160;&#160;combinations of money, talent, ambition, and&#160;&#160;passion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini,&#160;&#160;the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature who&#160;&#160;grew up into enchanting womanhood in <i>Scruples Two</i>.&#160;&#160;Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new Los&#160;&#160;Angeles advertising agency, with her creative&#160;&#160;&quot;teammate,&quot; David Melville, a brilliant young&#160;&#160;art director who joins her in seeking new&#160;&#160;accounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke,&#160;&#160;humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficult&#160;&#160;beauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famed&#160;&#160;Millicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband Angus&#160;&#160;Caldwell, owns one of New York's largest&#160;&#160;advertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian and&#160;&#160;an enormously successful mall builder, attempts to&#160;&#160;capture Gigi's quicksilver affections, although&#160;&#160;his fierce contenders for the same prize include&#160;&#160;both David Melville and the dominating film director,&#160;&#160;Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop Ikehorn&#160;&#160;Orsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroine&#160;&#160;of <i>Scruples</i>, and her new husband,&#160;&#160;the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy with&#160;&#160;their own fascinating lives, as are Gigi's father,&#160;&#160;canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her best&#160;&#160;friend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom can&#160;&#160;be forgotten from <i>Scruples</i> and&#160;&#160;<i>Scruples Two</i>. <i>Lovers</i>&#160;&#160;completes all the stories set in motion in the&#160;&#160;first two novels, yet it stands entirely on its own&#160;&#160;as a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983&#160;&#160;and 1984.