| On a beautiful spring day, a hard-working single mother's secret . fantasy
came true.. .Claire Goddard won sixty million dollars in the - lottery Claire quit her
job, and indulged herself and her seventeen-year-old daughter in the shopping spree of a
lifetime; together, they bought a house, cars, gifts, and designer clothes. Claire,
who had thought herself plain and dull, was now.superbly glamorous. Then,on an Alaskan
cruise, they met Quentin Eiger and his son, Brix—two worldly men whose lives were
enmeshed in sex, drugs, the dazzle of the billion-dollar worlds of fashion and cosmetics,
and a mystery that would soon entrap both Emma and Claire in its coils. As she watched her
daughter fall more deeply under Brix's control, Claire began to realize that she herself
was being manipulated by the seductive Quentin. Suddenly exposed to the dark side of
luxury Claire risked losing all that mattered most to her. Now she had to fight for the
one thing money could never buy: her precious daughter's love |
