Miami

Pat Booth. Ballantine Books, $5.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-38165-1

Bestselling author Booth's latest extravagant, frantic whirl through the enclaves of the famed and wealthy finds a former model opening her own agency in steamy Miami. (Feb.)

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