Pam Leighton, a smart, ambitious and sexy aide to a handsome Washington lobbyist falls in love with her powerful mentor. When he is nominated for a cabinet level job, his glamorous and social climbing wife forces him to fire his lover by threatening a very public divorce. It's not only Pam's career that is in ruins, her life is in danger too, as she realizes someone is trying to kill her. But whom? Her ex-lover? His jealous wife? The editor who has signed her up to write an expose? Or the mysterious graduate with whom she is falling in love? This story moves from private Georgetown clubs to a terrifying night on New York Harbour to a fatal fall onto London's Park Lane.