Laura Van Wormer

Describes the history, culture, people, commerce, and points of interest of Dallas, the second-largest city in Texas.

Returning home to California after testifying against a West Coast mafia boss, journalist Sally Harrington discovers that the mob is still after her when she travels to New York to help her great-uncle resolve some land ownership issues.

"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 Verity Rhodes, editor of a high-end tabloid magazine, Expectations, offers Sally a job writing an expose on Cassy Cochran, president of the powerful DBS TV network in 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."--BOOK JACKET.

This summer there's only one topic of conversation in the Hamptons : Alfred Hoffman's will. The famous Hollywood producer died in a plane crash, and now everyone wants a piece of the pie. Which is why Mary Liz Scott, an investment banker who's just retired at age thirty-three agrees to help her godmother, Alfred's wife, inventory the couple's multimillion dollar estate. Then someone is murdered. Mary Liz knows the murder is directly linked to something she's uncovered about the late Alfred Hoffman. And she knows that one of East Hampton's breathtakingly beautiful people has an ugly and deadly agenda. And now the murderer knows that Mary Liz knows ...

Along the banks of the Hudson River is one of New York's premier enclaves, Riverside Park, where up-and-comers rub shoulders with those who have already made it. The widespread branches of an urban family entwine in a stirring, multifaceted story of love denied, love revealed and love remembered.