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A USA Today Bestseller
A Doubleday Book Club, Doubleday Large Print Book
Club, Literary Guild, and Rhapsody Book Club selection.
Sex, wealth, status 末 they had everything but what they
wanted most...
Mary Beth, Nikki, and Gabrielle 末 the Atkinson cousins. They
have little in common except the vast fortune they inherited
and a childhood spent amid the splendor of Manhattan
townhouses and summers on Martha's Vineyard. Marked by a
summer tragedy they've all tried to forget, each woman has
struggled to find her own way to cope with the secrets of the
past...until their trusted executor disappears with their
money, and they must come together once again to find him.
MARY BETH: Now a pillar of the New York
social scene, buying designer clothing and priceless jewels
that even she cannot afford, Mary Beth is embroiled in
planning her daughter's preposterously lavish wedding.
NIKKI: Searching for peace on the Vineyard, Nikki pours her
inheritance into endless charity work and tries to pretend
that her life is fulfilling.
GABRIELLE: Sequestered by choice in magnificent Tuscany,
Gabrielle hoards her money in a Swiss bank account, safe from
her husband who knows nothing of her wealth.
For each woman, regaining her fortune has a different meaning
末 and will come at a different price. And in the end they'll
learn that no one's secrets can stay hidden forever...
One day my agent, Merrilee Heifetz, and my Bantam editor,
Wendy McCurdy, met for lunch. Sometime between the entr馥 and
the cookies (I know they must have had cookies!) they
came up with the title for my next book.
"Trust Fund Babies," one of them 末 I think it was Merrilee 末
told me on the phone.
"Great," I replied. "But what's the story?"
"That's up to you," she said. "But we think it's a perfect
title for you."
I took it as a challenge. I'm not sure which of us has been
more surprised at the outcome...or that it was an instant
USA Today bestseller!
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