"After years of struggle, Emma Conway is living the dream - a happy second marriage and a great career. She is the driving force behind Acordinol, a hugely successful product that has pharmaceutical giant Percival & Baxter riding high. But her dream life becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens P&B with a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary cut-throat, but her ex-husband Josh Katz, father of their 16 year-old son.P&B adopts the fabled Poison Pill strategy to defend againstthe move. Then a mysteriously tainted batch of Acordinol starts killing people, including P&B's CEO. Emma takes control of P&B's just as their once blue-chip stock goes into free fall. As Emma struggles to win the dangerous game her ex has put in motion,she discovers that nothing is as it appears; like Russian nesting dolls, there are secrets hidden within secrets. Josh's ploy is backed by a Russian oligarch who he owes $500 million, the price of his rescue after the sub-prime collapse. The Russian has covert designs on the holy grail of pharmaceuticals, the first Viagra for women. A secret romance between Emma's son and the oligarch's estranged daughter puts the children in the cross-hairs of their parents' mortal combat. And a conspiracy explodes that threatens to destroy them all. Emma is in a battle -even more desperate than she knows - to save her family, her company, and everything she loves. Glenn Kaplan has written an engaging thriller that will leave readers breathless"-