A powerful debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls Jillian Lauren's breathtakingly honest memoir, Some Girls, earned both critical praise and outstanding sales. In Pretty, Lauren delivers on her promise as a ''natural storyteller'' (_Los Angeles Weekly_) with an electrifying novel about a broken girl looking to be saved. Everything seemed simple when Bebe's musician boyfriend, Aaron, promised that they'd start a new life in San Francisco. But now Aaron is dead--killed in a fatal car crash that she survived--and Bebe is stuck in LA. As she tries to piece her life back together with the help of her makeshift family of friends--from both the halfway house where she's in recovery for addiction and from her beauty school--she finds salvation in unexpected places.

A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's hare, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser. At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.