Product Description

Above an exclusive men’s store on Rodeo Drive, there is a private club called Butterfly, where women are free to act out their secret erotic fantasies. Only the most beautiful and powerful women in Beverly Hills are invited to join …

JESSICA—The lawyer, who longs for the days when men were men, and women dressed to please them.

TRUDIE—The builder, who wants a man who will challenge her—all of her—with no holds barred.

LINDA—The surgeon, who uses masks to unmask the desires she hides even from herself.

But the most mysterious of them all is the woman who created Butterfly. She has changed her name, her accent, even her face to hide her true identity. And now she is about to reveal everything to realize the dream that has driven her since childhood—the secret obsession that will carry her beyond ecstasy, or destroy her and everyone around her!

“GLAMOUR, WICKEDNESS AND PASSION … BUILDS TO A DRAMATIC AND UNEXPECTED CONCLUSION!”—Publishers Weekly

“SIZZLING!”—New York Daily News

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #191475 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 364 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781583487631
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From Publishers Weekly
The pseudonymous Harvey's vivid, imaginative tale of a unique Beverly Hills brothel called Butterfly focuses on its wealthy founder, and three of her troubled female patrons. Discreetly located above an elegant men's clothing store, the brothel features costumed male "companions"a masked burglar, a Confederate soldier, a Versailles courtier, a cowboycapable of fulfilling any woman's needs and fantasies. Lawyer Jessica Franklin goes there for relief from her cold, intimidating husband; Dr. Linda Markus tries to cure her frigidity; Trudie Stein wants affirmation of her feminity. Behind the scenes is Butterfly's owner, Beverly Highland, whose harrowing life story is interspersed with the current action of the tale . Having run away from home in New Mexico at age 14 after being abused by her alcoholic father, Beverly succumbed to the rough-hewn charm of Danny Mackay, who put her to work in a squalid brothel and forced her to abort their baby. Vowing revenge, plain Beverly attains beauty through plastic surgery, becomes an affluent California entrepreneur and cunningly plots against Mackay, now an influential TV evangelist and presidential candidate. Glamour, wickedness and passion spark this highly commercial novel, which builds to a dramatic and unexpected conclusion. $75,000 ad/promo; first serial to Cosmopolitan; Troll Book Club main selection.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"Joan Collins could learn a thing or two from novelist Kathryn Harvey...Immensely readable!"-- "Chicago Tribune"

About the Author
Kathryn Harvey, author of the wildly successful novels Butterfly, Stars, and Private Entrance, is the pseudonym for award-winning, international bestselling author Barbara Wood. Her twenty-one novels are published in more than thirty languages. She lives with her husband in California.

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Customer Reviews

Delightfully trashy!
This book is just a terrific read. From the first page, Ms. Harvey just draws you into the worlds of not only the main character, but the subplots are pretty enticing, as well.

This book, along with the sequel, "Stars" (which you MUST read if you have read this book, and vice versa) are on my permanent summer reading list - books I re-read each year. Love, lust, revenge, redemption - it's all here. One of the best things about these books is that there is a sense of closure once you complete both volumes, unlike many novels which seem to end before the story is complete. Highly recommended!

Like Revenge? Best Ending Ever!!
I first read this book back in 1999 and recently dusted it off and read it again. One of my favorites to date.

The main character, Beverly Highland has a such a hard and terrible childhood that you find yourself rooting for her and almost clapping for her towards the end. She's a woman that every woman can identify with on some level and you watch her grow up, get smart and concoct the BEST revenge you could ever imagine. She goes from being homely and timid to being strong, ambitious, shrewd, smart, plotting and a real diva.

Sure wish there was a "Butterfly" club where I live! Reading this book was cake and the ending was the icing. Women of the world: Read this book! It will make you feel stronger and even inspire you to do better for yourselves.

Still on my Favorites List!
Butterfly was recommended by a friend like so many others that have read it. This was one of the best suggestions a friend could have offered to me. This book has a very interesting story about Beverly Highland who runs away from an abusive home at 14 only to be taken in by a man who uses her just as much by getting her into prostution. Beverly is a very well fleshed out character and she jumps off the page.

She loses that piece of childhood that happens when a child suffers at the hands of another. Then when she begins to trust the newest man in her life Danny Mackay he turns her into a prostitute and also makes her have an abortion. What else can a girl do but decide to plot her revenge against the man who wronged her.

Beverly changes her life by completely making herself over and building a successful very exclusive Brothel for women's needs of her own. She decides it will be the best and her clients the highest powerful connections and beauty. At Butterfly you must be hand picked. You have to know a member to become a member. At Butterfly a woman can fullfill all her fantasies. Among the men of Butterfly are a masked burglar, a Confederate soldier, a Versailles courtier, a cowboy all of which are there to make your every dream come true.

Within Beverly's story is the story of Lawyer Jessica Franklin, Dr. Linda Markus and Trudie a builder. They each come to Butterfly to fullfill their fantasy or to step out of their perfect/imperfect lives.

What Kathryn Harvey does with this story is draw you into each of the women in such an intricate web that you sit eagerly awaiting each new page. There is an erotic aspect that you expect from a story with a Brothel involved, but it's not the true nature of the story. The story is about women and their experiences and how lives are effected by things that happen to them. Ms. Harvey is very talented. I found myself flushed at times from the steam of this book and also had myself emotionally involved with the story even coming to tears at certain times.

This is what I look for in a story something that keeps me reading even after I know I should be in bed or doing something else. I sat in my easy club chair on a cold evening and read this book through in one sitting. And this isn't a small book.
After that I read it again. Luckily I found out about this book after it had been on the market for several years. Because there is a sequel Stars and you must read that after checking out this book.

All I have to say is even now this book pulls at me. It's a perfect book to stay in and read until you finish. Great story with heat to it. The bedroom door doesn't close on this one but you probably knew that when I mentioned Brothel:)

If I could give this more than 5 stars I would!