Scott Fitzgerald told us that the rich are different. If
we believe HEIRESS BEHIND THE HEADLINES they are neurotic,
self-obsessed, self-destructive and despise one another.
They jump into bed with people they claim to hate.
Larissa Whitney partied herself almost to death and none of
her Ivy league family cared that she spent three weeks in a
coma, claiming to the public that she'd been in rehab.
Understandably she has taken herself away to recuperate
both mentally and physically and has decided to put her
shallow behavior behind her. Dropping out and dyeing her
hair, she is spending winter on a small island off Maine.
Her time out is spoiled when Jack Endicott, who claims to
own the island but in fact just owns a house on it,
recognizes her. He and Larissa had a fling five years
previously but he got tired and grew up a lot quicker than
she did.
The two people spend a few chapters sneering at each other,
while she pretends to be still the party girl, before Jack
invites Larissa to dinner in his mansion. For no reason
she or I can think of, she goes. While they find each
other sexually attractive, a weekend of unprotected sex
later they haven't had a single conversation, they have
only
traded insults.
The action moves to New York with glittering parties and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, socialites and fund-
raisers. Larissa's father Bradford tells her to get her
suicide attempt right next time. He wants the shares she
holds in the family firm. Jack meanwhile is ordered to
marry respectably. Nobody expects these young people to be
happy, not even themselves. Their challenge is to get over
themselves and find out who loves them.
Maybe Caitlin Crews has got it spot on, I don't know. If
the rich are this different, who would want to be rich?
Out of the limelight and into the fire... Haunted by one scandal too many, tabloid-savaged and vulnerable, Larissa Whitney turns her back on her gilded fortune. Desperately hiding from the paparazzi's relentless cameras, Larissa escapes to a small, secluded island, seeking refuge. But she's not alone-instead, Larissa finds herself face-to-face with Manhattan tycoon Jack Endicott Sutton. Now she's trapped on an island with a man she had a wild affair with five years before.... A man she's still achingly attracted to. A man who knows the outrageous truth!
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