It's not often that an author who is widely-known for creating diverse, intelligent, sophisticated and charismatic characters, literally could have stepped off the pages of any one of her books. Tracie Howard is just such a person.

As a writer, she has completed six nationally-acclaimed novels [as of 2009] which uniquely depict the glamorous side of contemporary urban culture. Her eagerly-awaited follow-up to the best-seller Gold Diggers, is Friends & Fauxs (Random House), a titillating glimpse into the world of celebrity, pop culture, friendship, and betrayal. The book was released on July 28, 2009.

Combining a passion for travel, culture and education with her celebrated work in the fiction world, Ms. Howard recently completed a semester in Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso as a guest lecturer/professor at the Institut Superieur de Management. Based in Dakar, she was chosen for this prestigious honor as an acknowledgement of her expertise regarding the complex leadership issues which African and African-American decision-makers, law-makers, and parents jointly face.

While there, she touched the lives of over 1,000 African youths on a wide-ranging host of related subject matters and topics, including the global responsibility each one shares towards ensuring the continent's rightful place in a rapidly changing--and increasingly challenging---geo-political landscape.

As a business executive, Ms. Howard honed her skills at some of the world's most prestigious organizations, including the Xerox Company, Johnson and Johnson, American Express and The Olympic Committee. In 2008, she was selected (and served) as a ranking member of President Barack Obama's Finance Committee during his historic election campaign.

Often recognized for her impeccable fashion sense and beauty, Ms. Howard is a regular fixture in both local and national publications. Along with having been recognized as one of today's most stylish women by Ebony Magazine in 2008, she was voted as one of Jezebel Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful. In March 2009, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution featured her as one of their most of the City's most stylish women.

Tracie resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Friends & Fauxs
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway (July 28, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0767929934
ISBN-13: 978-0767929936
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches

Tracie Howard is back with all of the Gucci, glitz, and glamour in this steamy follow-up to her smash hit Gold Diggers!

Gillian Tillman learned all about landing a wealthy man from her globe-trotting mother, Imelda, but this second-generation gold digger has a style all her own. With big dreams of becoming a huge star, she slept her way right into the million-dollar mansion of her now-husband, star-producer Brandon Russell. He not only launched Gillian’s film career, but landed her the starring and Oscar-nominated role in the hit film Gold Diggers. But all that glitters may not be gold. Gillian wrestles with the real possibility that Brandon may be a mob-connected money launderer, and worse yet, may have had a hand in the murder of her friend Paulette. When pictures of her naked surface on the Internet, both Gillian’s Oscar dreams and her marriage are threatened, even though she swears they aren’t of her. Meanwhile her best friends are struggling with issues of their own. Reese’s beloved son falls ill and she’s forced to decide between spilling a long-kept secret and saving his life, and Lauren’s hard-won happiness is threatened by a shocking betrayal.

Buckle your seatbelt as the lives of these larger-than-life characters intersect in a wild, page-turning romp.

Success is the Best Revenge
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with Danita Carter

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (April 6, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451211464
ISBN-13: 978-0451211460
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches

Lyle Johnson is a hot and handsome Wall Street investment banker with no intention of settling down. His new partner is Tess Aventura Dubois-recently widowed and bequeathed a multi-million-dollar fortune. What she's investing in now is interest in Lyle, who can afford to share her luxurious lifestyle-if she can keep from him her deepest, darkest secret...

Gold Diggers
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Harlem Moon (April 17, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 038551798X
ISBN-13: 978-0385517980
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches

ENTER THE WORLD OF “GUCCI, GLITZ, AND GLAMOUR”* IN THIS DELICIOUSLY DECADENT LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF THE YOUNG, THE RICH, THE BEAUTIFUL, AND THE CONNIVING

Paulette, Gillian, and Reese are three gold diggers who have dollar signs in their eyes and gold digging in their DNA. Lauren is Paulette’s pampered cousin who never fails to remind Paulette of how different their lives have always been—Lauren the daughter of wealthy black urbanites and Paulette the daughter of the family black sheep who married “beneath her family pedigree.” Paulette will stop at nothing—not even sleeping with her cousin Lauren’s husband—to gain the social status she feels she rightfully deserves. Gillian is a second-generation gold digger and, having learned from the best, strategically sleeps her way to Hollywood—but does she have the talent to be a lasting star? Reese is a career basketball groupie turned NBA trophy wife, and she wears it well, taking advantage of everything her new position affords; but when she finds out that DL may be more than just her husband’s best friend’s initials, she may be forced to realize that all that glitters isn’t gold. The stunningly beautiful, well-bred, but naïve Lauren is the secret envy of her friends. She seems to have all the creature comforts money can buy, but when she’s confronted with a crisis of her own, just how will she respond?

Talk of the Town
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with Danita Carter

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (November 5, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451207033
ISBN-13: 978-0451207036
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches

A mix of money, sex, and power with a suspenseful storyline that speaks to our aspirations. —Russell Simmons

Tracie Howard and Danita Carter's sizzling debut, Revenge Is Best Served Cold, broke "exciting new ground in African-American fiction" (Kimberla Lawson Roby). Now they're back-and so are their invincible heroines-in a sexy new novel of romance and wealth...Manhattan style.

Why Sleeping Dogs Lie
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (November 4, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 045120977X
ISBN-13: 978-0451209771
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches

Mallory Baylor is the ultimate New York City girl-gorgeous and stylish, with a firm grip on Heat, the world's hottest urban publication. Any marks on her past have been artfully airbrushed away. Until she interviews handsome Saxton McKensie. Years ago, Mallory and Saxton's steamy affair ended with the birth of a child that Saxton-and his fiancée, TV superstar Deena Ingram-know nothing about. As this long-buried secret comes to the surface, Mallory and Saxton are forced to confront a scandalous past they longed to forget and an exciting future neither could have predicted...

Never Kiss and Tell
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (November 2, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 045121305X
ISBN-13: 978-0451213051
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches

One of Manhattan's most successful psychotherapists, Brooke Parrish, has finally met the man of her dreams: Taylor Hudson, the handsome up-and-coming investment banker of a prestigious New York firm. Trapped in a loveless marriage, he can't promise Brooke the moon-just yet. But Brooke thinks he's worth waiting for. Taylor's wife, Kiernan Malloy, is suspicious of her husband's infidelities. She knows him too well-and is accustomed to his secrets, both professional and private. Eager to save the dead-end marriage, she seeks the advice of a specialist. Her new therapist's name: Dr. Brooke Parrish. What unfolds between them is an unexpected and dangerous game for three players, where getting even is just the beginning, and passion can run as deep and as dark as revenge.

Revenge is Best Served Cold
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with Danita Carter

Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: NAL Trade (October 10, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451204751
ISBN-13: 978-0451204752
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches

Sexy, sophisticated, and successful, best friends Morgan Nelson and Dakota Cantrell have shattered the color barrier, kicked the boy's club to the curb, and made a name for themselves as the supreme Divas of Wall Street. But something's gotta give. And when it does, they're going to fight fire with fire, and betrayal with betrayal, to hold on to their Park Avenue dreams-and they're going to do it with the designer gloves off...

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