When Walter Childs attempts to leave Emily, his wife of twenty-five years, in order to marry the younger, more attractive woman he feels he deserves, he finds his plans thwarted on every front as Emily vanishes, the apparent victim of a brutal kidnapper.

Jennifer and Catherine-sisters who have inherited equal shares of power in Pegasus Satellite Services, one of the biggest communications empires in the world-could not be more different. While Catherine is an extraordinary beauty whose looks attract the most handsome and powerful men, her sister is a plain-Jane, no-nonsense gal who prefers running the company to walking the red carpet. But Jennifer's aversion to the spotlight becomes secondary after...