Fontaine Khaled Books in Order

Fontaine Khaled is the glamorous centre of Jackie Collins's earliest London nightclub stories. Married to a wealthy Middle Eastern businessman and restless with boredom, she spends her days shopping, partying and testing the limits of his bank account.

In the novels The Stud and The Bitch, Fontaine pours money into a fashionable disco and surrounds herself with beautiful young men. The most important is Tony, the club manager whose job security depends as much on pleasing Fontaine in bed as keeping her business humming at the door.

The series lives in the smoky, late‑seventies world of private tables, cocaine in the bathrooms and deals done in back offices. Power is traded through sex and secrets as much as contracts. Collins leans into the excess, but she also shows the vulnerability under all that gloss.

Across the two books Fontaine is both predator and survivor. She uses men, but she is also painfully aware that her status relies on a husband who could cut off the money at any moment and rivals who would love to see her fall. When she gets tangled with hustlers, gamblers and crooks, the games she thinks she controls become genuinely dangerous.

Readers can expect a mix of soap opera drama, crime and dark comedy. The tone stays fast and racy, with sharp dialogue, outrageous parties and sudden reversals of fortune. No one in Fontaine's circle is entirely innocent, which keeps the question of who will win or lose open right to the end.

Taken together, the Fontaine Khaled books feel like a bridge between Collins's early standalones and the later Hollywood and Santangelo novels. The themes of sex, money, risk and female autonomy are already there, wrapped in sequins and set to a disco soundtrack.