They drove the roller coaster of ambition to mind-bending heights -- three extraordinary people whose secrets, sins, and shameless hungers led them to the farthest outposts of lust. With her dangerous crystalline eyes and air of quiet mystery, ravishing golden predator Jill Fleming rose from a nightmare childhood, seducing men and women alike as she exploited their private fantasies. Crowned by wild strawberry blond hair, blue-collar princess Leslie Chamberlain fled her small town to become queen of one of the nation's hottest advertising agencies, until one reckless night with Mr. Wrong nearly destroyed her, and another man's velvet caresses became an irresistible addiction that would forever change her glittering dream. Jordan Lazarus' brilliance, good looks, and Midas touch propelled him from a Pennsylvania assembly line to headlines as America's richest man. But not even a gallery of willing seductresses could obliterate a long buried obsession that threatened to blaze white-hot again. From Chicago to Detroit and New York's luxurious gold coast, the three come together...risking the ultimate betrayal, and abandoning all 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).