In her small upstate New York town, Molly Howe is admired for her beauty, poise, and character, until one day a secret is exposed and she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, where she finds solace in a young art student named John Wheelwright. They embark on an intense, all-consuming affair, until the day Molly disappears-again. A decade later, John is lured by the eccentric advertising visionary Mal Osbourne into a risky venture that threatens to eviscerate every concept, slogan, and gimmick exported by Madison Avenue. And much to John's amazement, one of the many swept into...

Abducted by Victor Hartley in the middle of a riot, aspiring writer Paul Soloway becomes a reluctant hero at the center of a racial maelstrom. By the author of The Liberty Campaign.

Advertising executive Gene Trowbridge is about to have his suburban paradise threatened when a scandal erupts around his long-time neighbor, Albert Ferdinand. Gene sets on to learn the truth for himself, but it proves more than he can handle. Now Gene, a man who has made a career out of selling dreams, must set a cost for the selling of the soul.