About This Book
Gordon Perkins has been one of Wall Street's most successful investment bankers. There's no one he can't double-cross or double-deal, including his partners at the Morningstar Financial Services firm. But his hunger for money doesn't match his appetite for domination...and cocaine. After indulging in one line too many, the city's financial genius is now lying in a coma--could this be the end of Gordon?
Paul Taylor is a lawyer, businessman, part-owner of Dorothy's by the Sea restaurant, and charter member of The Pride. Recently remarried to his beautiful ex-wife, Deirdre Douglas, an investment banker and a charter member of The Pride in her own right, Paul seems to have everything--a three-year old son, a stunning house, and prestige. But the life that Paul so carefully constructed has been turned upside down, and now he must work harder than he ever has to keep from losing it all...
Kenitra Perkins is leading the glamorous life of luxury and peace thanks to the ten million dollar off-shore fund that her husband Gordon had secretly tucked away for his own schemes. Now living in Venice Beach, CA, she goes to New York to ensure that Gordon doesn't make a miraculous recovery. Because what she really wants now is Sture Jorgensen, a blue-eyed Norwegian--the last thing she needs is for Gordon to try to ruin her life once more...
Jerome Hardaway is left with a broken heart and two sons to raise after the death of his wife, Charmaine. But he still has Morningstar to run, a universe of opportunities and a City where beautiful women seem to be everywhere–truly it's a brand new world for Jerome. Now he has to make sure that Morningstar stays strong enough to survive anything, even the possible return of the demonic and comatose Gordon.
Welcome to the real New York, and the powerful, beautiful black people who help make it run.
