He is a young, dashing, impossibly handsome politician, a rapidly rising star in his party, which prizes him for his integrity, forthrightness and brilliant oratorical skills. She is his wife, surpassingly cultured, graceful, and beautiful, an elegant young woman whose dinner parties and salons have already become the toast of the town.

Both are on a fast track to almost unimaginable mutual success—until an unscrupulous woman, once known to them both, re-enters their upper-crust social circle possessed of a dark secret from the husband’s distant past. It’s a particularly ruinous secret that, once revealed, threatens to destroy forever this golden couple’s meticulously, painstakingly built life of wealth, power, and fame. [Read more...]