Adrienne Ashcroft — forty-two, the sharpest litigator at Castellane, Marsh & Dunne, a woman whose closing arguments have ended companies and whose husband hasn't touched her in a year — is passed over for the partnership she has already earned, handed a rival eighteen years younger to share it with, and collared in a slip of silver chain by a beautiful blond twenty-four-year-old who has been hired to take everything she owns, in a firm where every promotion has a price and every woman a shelf-life. But the golden boy sent to ruin her wakes something nobody in that building believed a bored wife still had in her: real, reckless, ruinous want — for the one man closer in age to her daughter than to her, arrogant enough to believe he was the hunter, desperate enough to fall in love somewhere along the way, and foolish enough never once to ask why she kept saying yes.
