cover image All About Eva

All About Eva

Deidre Berry, . . Kensington/Dafina, $14 (294pp) ISBN 978-0-7582-3834-4

Living a VIP lifestyle on someone else's dime leads to eye-popping changes for a former New York beauty editor in Berry's hilarious riches-to-rags-and-redemption saga (after The Next Best Thing ). Fashionista Eva Cantrell loves being spoiled rotten by investment banker Donovan J. Dorsey, but a fateful opportunity to revise her thinking occurs when Donovan vanishes after being accused of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. Eva returns to Manhattan from a would-be glamorous Swiss vacation to discover Donovan's mother has sold her possessions, the airline has lost eight of her Vuitton bags, and she's been mass defriended on Facebook. Donovan's shady lawyer offers refuge while her friends Kyle and Tameka try to get her back on her feet, but ultimately Eva realizes she must rescue herself. Eva's juicy journey to self-enlightenment amounts to another fine outing for Berry. (Apr.)