Paul Best is the youngest son in a third-generation Chicago real estate and finance empire. Approaching 30, depressed by a breakup, failing in his ambitions as an artist and struggling to beat drug addiction, he agrees to try working with his father and brother in the family's group of businesses, whose secrets lead him to even more disappointments, and a path to maturity through new roles as detective, rebel, and lover.

Ken Kaye's fifth novel captures the gritty reality of interpersonal conflicts in a megamillion dollar family business as well as each of its members' conflicting drives for public admiration, sex, family approval, and self respect.