Three unforgettable characters whose lives collide in a tangle of ambition, fantasies and dark appetites. Jill Fleming rose from a nightmare childhood to become a beautiful predator who enticed men and women, always leaving behind a wake of aching desire, and always looking ahead... Leslie Chamberlain thought only success at the nation's hottest ad agency could satisfy her, until one man's velvet caresses became an addiction that would forever change her glittering dream... Jordan Lazarus had a razor-sharp mind, a vast business empire, and gallery of willing seductresses. But a long-buried obsession threatened to blaze white-hot again... From the cutthroat corporate towers of Chicago, Detroit and New York, to Long Island's luxurious gold coast, where scandal smoulders restlessly beneath the polished veneer of wealth, these three will come together...reckless players in a high-stakes game, risking the ultimate betrayal, and abandoning the rules for the fruits of forbidden passion.
I have to admit the ending changed my feeling about this book which annoyed me greatly until about two thirds through. I didn't much appreciate the style which felt very Danielle Steele/Jackie Collins to me, with the ultra rich and super ambitious, tales of takeovers and corporation politics - not really my thing. I also felt the constant introduction of new characters with their whole life story a bit like a catalogue after a while. Only towards the end when their paths all FINALLY started to cross, did it become more interesting. I was irked no end that the story started with the violent scene which (intentionally, no doubt) overshadowed the whole rest of the book, but did feel somewhat assuaged when the scene was replayed from a different perspective finally at the end. Not sure I would go for another book by this author, but did want to read it all the way through (although that wasn't a foregone conclusion about half-way).