For Love and Money
A Novel of Stocks and Robbers
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Publisher Description
Known for her deliciously wicked novels depicting the subtleties and pitfalls of modern relationships, Leslie Glass now takes stock of life’s two most compelling priorities: love and money.
Successful stockbroker Annie Custer is the perfect working mom: Her only problems are her career and her domestic life. Impossible clients are driving her mad at work, while home is total chaos. Her burned-out husband refuses to tackle anything more strenuous than his golf game. As for her two teenage daughters, one won’t get out of bed, and the other is flunking out of school. And now Annie’s housekeeper, Dina, the glue keeping them all together, has just quit.
When her best friend, Carol asks Annie to do a slightly illegal favor for Carol’s eccentric parents, Annie reluctantly agrees and is swept into a family feud that proves to be as dangerous as it is cantankerous. Carol’s father accuses Annie of stealing valuable assets, and soon Annie’s job and family are at risk in ways she never could have imagined. Fraud, theft, and a possible cruel murder challenge her loyalties and threaten to change her life forever. Pitted against the shady side of the cutthroat brokerage business, Annie faces the ultimate betrayal from the friend she tried to help, her husband (who still won’t get off the golf course), her kids (who still can’t get their act together), and a younger lover . . . who happens to be her boss.
With the same masterly storytelling and deft characterization that charmed readers in Over His Dead Body, Leslie Glass navigates the highs and lows in the life of a woman who decides it’s time to take stock of her situation–and chart a new course for happiness.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A bunch of valuable bearer bonds are at the rather prosaic heart of this stock market suspense novel by Glass (Over His Dead Body). When stockbroker Annie Custer's wealthy best friend, Carol, begs her to pick up bond certificates from Carol's elderly parents in Staten Island, Annie knows she should say no. There's already bad blood between the two families after a bitter lawsuit pitting Annie's husband against Carol's husband, and Annie is leaving herself open to charges of theft. But Annie needs all the business she can get her husband, Ben, is suffering from PTSD after escaping the World Trade Center collapse and Annie is the sole support of their two teenage daughters so she picks up the bonds. Sure enough, Carol's father, Dean Teath, a crotchety miser, accuses Annie of stealing securities worth a quarter of a million dollars and threatens to sue her firm. Annie's boss, Brian, provides crucial support, but it soon becomes clear he expects payback. On the home front, Annie is distancing herself from Ben; her eldest daughter decides to forgo college; and her youngest daughter is experimenting with drugs. Annie's vividly sketched domestic crises are more involving than the lethargic twists and turns of the bond incident in this financial thriller turned family drama.
