Saturday, July 03, 2010

Pg. 99: Jillian Lauren's "Some Girls"

This weekend's feature at the Page 99 Test: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren.

About the book, from the publisher:
A secret Xanadu. A charming prince. Add decadence, excess, and a rebellious teenager and you have an unforgettable and twisted modern fairy tale.

At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The “casting director” told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian found herself on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei. Leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for an opulent palace where she walked on rugs laced with gold, Jillian traded her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.

More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself- and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.
Watch the trailer for Some Girls and read an excerpt; learn more about the book and author at Jillian Lauren's website and blog.

The Page 99 Test: Some Girls.

--Marshal Zeringue