The ever-stylin' Collins manages to tie the scattered plot lines together into another page-turning tale packed with intrigue, revenge and romance. - Publishers Weekly
St. Martin's Press
February 2006
480 pages ISBN: 0312341776 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Amy Scott-Simon, a beguilingly pretty young New York
heiress, is engaged to marry Max Diamond, an older,
powerful real estate tycoon, when at her bachelorette party
she runs into Jett, Max's younger half-brother--fresh from
Italy, where he is a successful male model. A one-time drug
addict now in the program, Jett has no idea who Amy is. She
also doesn't realize who he is. A one-night fling leads to
complications and regrets.
Meanwhile, Chris Diamond, a hot L.A. entertainment lawyer,
flies into town to meet with his two brothers and Red
Diamond, the boys' billionaire father, a dysfunctional,
abusive bully.
Working as Red's housekeeper is Diahann, a beautiful black
ex-singer. Her stunning bi-racial nineteen-year-old
daughter Liberty, a waitress and would-be singer herself,
does not approve of her mother working as a housekeeper.
Liberty has dreams of her own, and while she pursues them,
Damon P. Donnell, married hip-hop mogul supreme, pursues
her.
And then there is Mariska, Max's Russian socialite ex-wife,
a woman with more secrets than anyone, secrets that
ultimately lead to her brutal and mysterious murder.
As the lives of these characters intertwine over a seven-
day period in New York, power, love, sex, money, and fame
are the ties that bind--emotionally and otherwise--in this
highly charged love story about family relationships,
deadly choices, and dangerous sex.