Cash-strapped writer India Palmer is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when she meets Win Johns, a swaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage-backed securities. Charmed by India's intelligence, humor, and inquisitive nature and aware of her near-desperate financial situation, Win proposes to make her a world-class bond trader in eighteen months. India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of the income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling...

Investment banker Geri Molloy is shaken from a breakup-related malaise by an eccentric hedge fund manager in Hong Kong who embroils Geri in a high-stakes takeover that places her future at risk.

Growing up in the snowblower society of Buffalo, New York, Laura Pedersen's first words were most likely "turn the wheel into a skid." Like many families subsisting in the frigid North during the energy crisis, the Pedersens feared rising prices at the gas pump, argued about the thermostat, fought over the dog to stay warm at night, and often slept in their clothes. While her parents were preoccupied with surviving separation and stagflation, daughter...

A dazzling, sophisticated thriller set in the world of global finance follows the fortunes of charismatic and nerveless trader Massimo Ruggero, who looks set for promotion to the big leagues at NYL bank after a string of stunning successes. But when a scandal breaks involving his ex-wife, Massimo's CEO and mentor Dominic Morgan passes over him in favor of a fierce rival. Things go from bad to worse when a colleague then suddenly dies, and Massimo...