From the author of A Brooklyn Storyand one of USA TODAY's celebrated "New Voices of 2011," comes a new novel which exposes the over-the-top decadenceand corruptionof Wall Street's elite. The follow-up to Suzanne Corso's debut novel, A Brooklyn Story, chronicles Samantha Bonti's life as a young woman from Brooklyn struggling to rise above her poverty-stricken background and find love and success "over the bridge" in Manhattan. When she meets the man of her dreams in Alec, a successful Wall Street banker, she thinks her prayers for stability and security have been answered. But as she struggles to carve out a place for herself in Alec's worldthe excessively decadent, secretly seedy, and wholly unfamiliar world of Manhattan's eliteshe begins to wonder if she'll ever truly feel at home by Alec's side. And when a risky business move coincides with a market crash, Alec's fortune begins to slip away, and Samantha is left scrambling to pick up the pieces of her swiftly crumbling fairy tale.

Suzanne Corso is the author of Brooklyn Story and The Suite Life, as well as two feature film screenplays. She has also produced two documentaries and written one children’s book. She currently lives in New York City.