Synopsis Thirty-year-old newspaper journalist Sally Harrington has just landed what appears to be the opportunity of a lifetime. After two years of complacently covering the city council beat for her small Connecticut hometown newspaper, she is suddenly at the center of a local murder mystery possibly linked to her father's death two decades ago. When a Vanity Fair-like magazine offers her a glamorous feature story assignment, pulling her into Manhattan's most elite publishing and media circles, Sally's cozy small-town life is transformed by a volatile mixture of sex, power, and danger. A 1999 New York Times Notable Book.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-08-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 376 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Publisher's Note Two years ago, Sally Harrington abandoned the fast pace and adrenaline rush of working for a Los Angeles magazine to return home to Castleford, Connecticut. Now she works for the local paper, chasing leads from Crazy Pete Sabatino, the town's conspiracy theorist, and is on again off, again with her boyfriend from high school.
Then a chance encounter in the woods changes everything....
When Sally rescues a man who believes he's having a heart attack, she stumbles into the world of Corbett Schroeder, corporate raider, and his wife, Verity Rhodes, editor of a high-end tabloid magazine, EXPECTATIONS, it's Sally's chance to play in that world again, if only temporarily.
Her assignment is to write an expose on Cassy Cochran, president of the powerful DBS TV network in New York. While running back and forth between New York. While running back and forth between New York and Castleford, Sally finds she's juggling two lifestyles, two, jobs, even two men. But her worlds collide when she's drawn into a local murder investigation a murder that, according to Crazy Pete, is directly linked to Sally's father, who died in an accident when she was just a child.
For someone who's always taken risks, Sally finds that her life is completely out of control. Her plum assignment isn't what it seems, one of the men in her life just might have a hidden agenda and her father's accidental death might have in fact been murder.
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