Books like Lip service by Rose, M. J.

On a group holiday in Thailand, a lonely civil servant meets Valerie and together they launch a provocative sex‑tourism venture that transforms their lives and challenges conventional romance.

Former Trainspotting gang members return to Edinburgh, dreaming up quick‑money schemes that expose the quirky social customs of their lives.

Broadway dancer Kate Duggan and psychiatrist David Chapman meet in Central Park and lock eyes, but their lives intertwine with secrets, danger, and a stalker whose obsession threatens to turn lust into murder.

Daisy Bowman, after years of searching for a husband in London, faces a family ultimatum: marry now or accept her father's chosen match, the aloof Matthew Swift. A surprising attraction and a scandalous secret test their burgeoning love.

In her fourth book, LIPSTICK JUNGLE, best-selling author Candace Bushnell re-creates a real-life world as compelling and fascinating as Sex and the City. In LIPSTICK JUNGLE, high fashion meets the powerful women who actually wear it.Victory Ford -- single, beautiful, creative and unconventional -- has worked for years to create her own independent fashion house. But when her company goes into a tailspin, Victory falls into the arms of the ruthless cosmetics baron, Lyne Bennett. As she struggles to keep her company afloat, she learns crucial lessons about what she really wants from a relationship.One of the most powerful women in publishing, Nico O'Neilly seems to have it all -- a stellar career, a well-respected husband, and an eight-year-old daughter whom she adores. But at forty-three, Nico finds that this isn't enough. Her secret ambition is to become the first female CEO of Splatch-Verner (the multimedia company that owns her magazine), but if she's going to achieve her goal, she needs to start acting now.Wendy Healy, President of Parador Pictures, has chutzpah to spare. It’s propelled her to the very top of the cutthroat movie business, yet as she tries to bring her most important movie to the screen, her drive is not enough to save her. Selden Rose, the president of MovieTime, is secretly lobbying to oust Wendy and take over Parador; meanwhile, her twelve-year-marriage to her metrosexual househusband is falling apart. One has to go--and in a series of unconventional plot twists, Wendy finds a startling answer.Following these determined but likeable leading ladies through the ups and downs of their careers, their marriages and their affairs, Candace Bushnell shows us how three strong women stay at the top of their fields in the toughest town in the world.

A candid, confessional diary that chronicles the author’s emotional turbulence, sexual experiments, and relationship failures amid the gritty backdrop of New York City.

447 pages : 24 cm

Regina Gottlieb enters a prestigious university with a cautionary warning, only to find herself drawn into the complex, alluring world of professor Nicholas Brodeur and his charismatic, volatile wife.

After a gruesome murder, a self‑sufficient New York writing‑teacher tests her limits through a risky liaison, only to find her own desires and suspicions intertwined with terror and violence.

A disillusioned New York translator discovers his life is unraveling after finding his girlfriend with another man, leading him on a quest of sexual experimentation and existential reckoning.

After his mother dies, 12‑year‑old David escapes into the stories that once comforted him, only for myth and war to collide in a world where a Crooked Man and a faded king rule over wolves and hidden secrets.