With her tall, willowy beauty and style, a teenage orphan, rising to the top of the New York fashion industry, meets and marries the irresistibly dashing man whom she believes is her soul mate. But before long, Victoria Topping's fairy tale marriage begins to threaten her fabulous career and her very life. Discovering that her husband has been secretly leading a concealed dual existence, Victoria is compelled to unravel the bizarre and unsettling mysteries that surround the man she loves — a man she can neither live with nor live without, a person she never really knew. The shocking revelations she finds are shattering.