Theirs was a dream marriage: young Natalie Stuart, hotshot Wall Street banker...and Wallace Nevsky, the Russian-born czar of the international fur trade. Together they built Cotillion Furs into a high-fashion American empire. Equal partners in love and business, Natalie knew they had nothing to hide from each other. Until a mysterious blond assassin launched a bullet through her husband's heart.
From that instant on, Natalie's life would never be the same. Plagued by doubts about her loving husband and forced to fight to keep her company afloat, she would find her strength tested at every turn. And then, in a journey that would take her from the opulent showrooms of New York's fur district to the dark heart of Soviet Russia, she would find herself catapulted into the nightmare world of her husband's double life. For the man she had known body and soul had possessed a terrifying secret...and an enemy who would soon become her own