A WINNING cocktail of sex, love, betrayal, danger and unforgettable characters.

The novel is the latest instalment in the Lucky Santangelo series. Lucky is beautiful and successful, but cross her and she’ll exact revenge.

She is caught up in a good old-fashioned Italian-style blood feud that stretches back decades. The villain, drugs baron Anthony Bonar, is an evil thug and serial adulterer who embarks on a mission that will result in murder and mayhem.

While he jets from Miami to Las Vegas to Mexico in his private plane, Lucky and her beloved fourth husband are planning a party for her father’s 95th birthday. The whole Santangelo clan are gathering.

The only one missing is Lucky’s 16-year-old daughter Max. Rebellious and headstrong, she has slipped out of town for a rendezvous with a stranger from an internet chatroom. He turns out to be a madman with a grudge against her mother.

One of the joys of Collins’ novels is that everything is larger than life. The baddies are nasty and ugly. The goodies are talented and gorgeous. All of them are super rich. An electrifying read!

GINA SYKES