Minotaur Books
December 2010
On Sale: November 23, 2010
Featuring: Robin & Catilin Barlow; Sarah Livingston; Jacqueline Halstead
320 pages ISBN: 0312378173 EAN: 9780312378172 Trade Size Add to Wish List
Step into picture-perfect Wilshire, home to some of the
most privileged people in the world, where one woman’s
desperate act could bring the precariously balanced social
order crashing down…
Wilshire, Connecticut, the gilded enclave of Manhattan’s
prosperous elite, appears to be a vision of suburban
tranquility: the mansions are tastefully designed, the
lawns are expertly manicured, and the streets are as
hushed as the complexities in the residents’ lives. While
Wilshire's husbands battle each other in the financial
world, their wives manage their estates and raise the next
elite generation. Some women are envied, some respected,
and others simply tolerated. But regardless of where they
stand, each woman is defined by the world she inhabits and
bound by the unyielding social structure that surrounds
her.
Rosalyn Barlow, the most envied woman in Wilshire, is
waging a battle of social manipulation to silence the
scandalous gossip that threatens her daughter's reputation
while her self-made billionaire husband grows more and
more distant in his young retirement. But for fourteen
year-old Caitlin Barlow, navigating life as a teenager in
a culture of wealth and sexual promiscuity has become far
more perilous than either of her parents knows. Newcomer
Sarah Livingston has nothing but disdain for everyone and
everything around her and a growing terror at having
another child in a world she's come to resent. As she is
pulled into the Barlow family's storm, the walls begin to
close in around her marriage and the life she once thought
she wanted. And for Jacqueline Halstead, who's just
discovered her husband is under investigation for fraud
surrounding his hedge fund, saving her family from total
ruin means doing the unthinkable - and shaking the Barlow
family, Wilshire's insular community, and herself to the
core.
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