Are you enjoying wine with your lover, darling? I hope so, because I’ve just frozen your credit cards and that bottle will be the last thing you buy with my father’s money.

Julian Thorne had always believed that success made him untouchable. At forty-five, he was the Senior Vice President of Sterling Media, a powerful figure in the Manhattan advertising world. That evening he sat comfortably inside the velvet-lined booth of Le Monde, the kind of steakhouse where deals were sealed over wine worth more than most…