Love Lust and Serendipity : Windsurf Publishing LLC : 9781936509201 : 1936509202 : 22 Nov 2017 : YOUNG AND GORGEOUS Chantel Du Maurier comes to New York City from Maine to make it in the beauty industry. When she arrives, she lands a job at the glamorous Champs of Paris counter in Bloomingdale's. Chantel soon makes friends with Dora Moore from Atlanta. Dora invites Chantel to a company holiday party for investment bankers at Cipriani's. It was then that Chantel met her first love, Marco Puccio. Not long after dating, Marco plans to propose to Chantel. But his plans are uprooted when his egocentric mother comes between them. Chantel decides she cannot see Marco any longer and continues to focus on her career and her success at Champs. But when she meets a devious department store owner who sexually assaults her, she becomes pregnant. MONTHS LATER, Chantel has a daughter named Crystal who is temporarily taken care of by her sister in Maine. And after continued success in her career, Cha