Five years ago, a wild, drunken night in a Manhattan penthouse left Iris Gray—a struggling independent designer—with a daughter she couldn't remember bearing due to trauma-induced amnesia; the child was secretly adopted by an Upper East Side socialite. To shoulder the crushing burden of New York rent and student loans, Iris entered a whirlwind marriage with Arthur Thorne, a down-and-out coder who was secretly a Wall Street tycoon; within the confines of their cramped bedroom, they were consumed by a volatile, intensely passionate intimacy. The malicious socialite who had stolen Iris’s patent went so far as to use the adopted daughter as a prop for red-carpet publicity stunts and drove Iris into a corner with a ruthless, predatory non-compete agreement. When a DNA test revealed the truth and Iris saw her daughter covered in bruises, she was consumed by rage—and Arthur Thorne finally shed his disguise, vowing to bring the entire New York financial elite to ruin in retribution for the harm done to his wife and child.
