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In this Pygmalion tale of a novelist turned bond trader, Martha McPhee brings to life the greed and riotous wealth of New York during the heady days of the second gilded age. India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of the writer, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplane swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her life, one who will change everything.The stranger isWin Johns, a swaggering and intellectually...

The murder of a Connecticut family is almost written off as a burglary gone bad by the local police force, but former police lieutenant Ty Hauck, an investigator for a global securities firm, is drawn to the case and led to a global terrorist conspiracy when he learns that the murdered woman is a former lover of his and that the male victim, Mark Glassman, was the chief equities trader at a top investment bank.