Restraint

Vega Johnson is beautiful, successful, elegant, eerily passive. There was not enough passion in her marriage for it to dissolve in anger, which is why she remains friends with her ex, Don, and why when he introduces her to Paul Lattimer, a handsome man he describes as "rolling in money, " Vega is totally unprepared for the voracious and reckless emotions that overtake her. She senses that Paul is different, dangerous in some way, a man playing by his own rules. And when the excitement he stirs touches her, Vega awakens to her own appetites and embarks on a journey on which she throws aside, one by one, the cautions and inhibitions of a lifetime to explore the depths of her own eroticism. With Paul as her mentor, Vega, an investment counselor, becomes a predator, finally crossing the line into criminality. But her allegiance isn't to Paul; it is to desire. Through him, she discovers her ability to transcend fear, to go for broke in a man's world, and to risk transgression - both sexual and criminal - in order to feel the power of being free. Full of shocking sex and taut suspense, set among the financial and lifestyle high-rollers of L.A., this swift-paced tale is an exploration of one woman's determination to break through narrow gender roles, confront and conquer the fear inside her, become her own creation, and even the score.