Angelica, a suiccessful New York model, is gorgeous and very free-spirited. She "had been raised to believe in herself," says Leo Birch, the author of this sequel to Julie and Jim.

That upbringing enabled her to experience the sensual side of life with eagerness and confidence. "She does these things easily," Birch observes.

"Maybe because she forgets them easily. "She flies to the French Riviera at the behest of a secret admirer who's sent her an exquisite vintage bracelet.

She thinks he may be a guy named Alexander (whose marriage proposal she turned down some time back and set him up with a friend, Helene), and she runs into Julie and Jim in St. Paul de Vence, who do a series of luscious nudes of her and renew their steamy relationship.

She was right about Alexander, who shows up with Helene! So Angelica departs with the photographers for Cadaqués in Spain and an explosive series of sensual experiences, aboard the luxuryboat Salvadore Dali once gave to his wife Gala, where they join the adventurous East Side couple from New York we first met in "J&J". She offers up her body to possibilities of intimacy beyond anything she has ever felt.

And Alexander finds her!Join her, Julie and Jim, and the others in a world that offers up romance, elegance, and sensual joys of every stripe. .

. and learn whether Alexander is, in the end, lucky enough to keep the incomparable Angelica.

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