"Move over Sidney Sheldon...Gripping, highly entertaining" - Sunday Mail

A spellbinding thriller about wealth, power and one woman's all-consuming ambition to achieve her wildest dreams.
When Lenore Hamlyn is taken in by her sympathetic landlady, she's shocked to eventually learn the source of Nan's wealth.

Yet that life-changing revelation fires a relentless, burning ambition.

Escaping her dangerous past, the young, naïve Lenore returns from her English finishing school as the sophisticated, enigmatic Anthea James. A woman determined to make her mark as quickly and provocatively as possible.

But the higher you go, the further there is to fall.

And with her improbable goal tantalizingly close, Anthea finds herself confronted by rich and deadly enemies. Yet the greatest danger of all comes from the only man she has ever loved. Who now has the power to destroy her.

"A rip-roaring, irresistible page-turner" - Sunday Times

About the Author

Jennifer Bacia's first novel, Indecent Ambition (original title, Shadows of Power) was sold for a record-breaking advance and became an international bestseller. The success of that compelling, fast-paced thriller opened the door to the boom in Australian popular fiction publishing that followed.

The author of nine novels and dozens of short stories, Jennifer was invited to establish the first creative writing course at Bond University. Based on that course, her non-fiction work, Bestseller!: How to Write Novels that Sell, offers a detailed, practical guide to writing for the popular fiction market.

Born in the UK of a Scottish mother and Polish father, Jennifer has lived in London, Rome and LA and now resides in Brisbane, Australia. Her surname is pronounced 'batcher'.