Do Melian’s lovers win? Maybe, maybe not.
We see plenty of marriages of convenience that function as efficiently as any well-managed business partnership and whose players might even end up liking one another. In a world where the line between self-love and illusion and self-hate and delusion is so thin, true love, to paraphrase Charles de Gaulle, might sometimes win a battle but it is all too likely to lose the war. Wildchilds is a love story but successful love stories in our milieu are rare. “As I was drawn through the slow, suburban American prelude of Wildchilds and into a darker place beyond, I became aware of feeling grubby and soiled because I had been involved in the world Eugenia Melian brings to life for the reader. Wildchilds is a work of fiction based on the truth. Will she expose the industry’s dark side and shameful secrets? Can she shield her family from the consequences? Iris embarks on a suspenseful journey through the closed world of the fashion industry, where the beautiful people do ugly things. To protect her daughter from scandal, Iris needs to confront the demons that caused her to flee Paris, her career, and her life with Gus. An old enemy is staking claim to them, and a notorious tabloid is threatening Iris with brutal-and very private-images of her past life. Iris soon discovers that she’s not the only one after the photographs. A celebrated art and fashion photographer, Gus has left his estate to Lou, with one condition: Iris must travel to Paris and recover a missing collection of his work. However, when the news of Gus’s unexpected death reaches Iris, her tenuously reconstructed life is thrown into chaos. She has created a new life for herself and her daughter, Lou, in California. Seventeen years ago, Iris was forced to abandon Gus, the love of her life, and her career as a top model in Paris. The loss of innocence, the death of beauty, and the price of success
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