The sunset crowd - karin tanabe

The Sunset Crowd is everything I want in a book―complex characters, glamorous locales, and a plot thats as smart as it is juicy.

Youre going to love it.

--Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs Fame.

Fortune.

You cant have them all.

Meet LA darling Evra Scott.

The daughter of an Oscar-winning director and a Brazilian bombshell actress, Evra is the citys reigning style queen.

By day, shes at the helm of Sunset on Sunset, the store beloved by Hollywoods young and beautiful.

By night, shes on the arm of Kai de la Faire, Hawaiis hottest export, and the screenwriter of the moment.

Enter Theodora Leigh.

The twenty-something Paramount assistant looks like a big screen star, but her sights are firmly set behind the scenes, as she fights to become a movie producer in a town where sex and sexism sell.

Theodoras got the talent and instincts, but shes not willing to wait.

Luckily, getting ahead by any means necessary is LAs mantra.

Observing it all is Bea Dupont, a photographer for Rolling Stone and Vogue, who never misses the party, but always keeps to its fringes.

A Manhattan blue blood turned West Coast bohemian, Bea holds Evras Sunset crowd together.

Shes also Kais oldest friend, and shes harbored a not-so-secret flame for him since they met at an elite Swiss boarding school.

But in Hollywood, no one stays on top forever.

And its not long before Theodoras unrelenting ambition sets in motion a dramatic quest for power in an industry that is as glamorous as it is duplicitous.

From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabes The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and reinvention, of faking it until you make it, and the glittering appeal of success and stardom, as it seeks to answer that timeless question―who gets to have the American dream?.