St. Martin’s, New York, 1998, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-312-18684-3.  Hard cover, 341 pages.  Unread remaindered copy with light shelf wear and light marks on boards.  Dust jacket with price intact has light edge and cover wear; interior clean and unmarked; small soil spot on fore-edge page block.  ‘Samantha Flint … flees from the Midwest to Smith College to shake her past, to invent a future she can live with.  There she meets the redoubtable Mimi Mohr, who soon becomes her friend, confidante, and inspiration; together (and apart) they spend the next decade and a half in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, each new city and job taking them to fresh heights of power and wealth.  Yet everything Sam wants seems destined to elude her, even as it comes easily to Mimi; decisions soon slip beyond her control; and after a series of moral lapses – some desperate, some careless – Samantha Flint finds that her dreams, through neglect, have turned violently against her.’ (from front flap)