Chapter One

The city lit up; it didn't sleep. Silver lights rippled across the desert night as Las Vegas spread out like a sparkling creation from the top level of the Aurelia Hotel. Inside the ballroom, the most wild souls in the world came together to play jazz, champagne poured like gold, and laughs erupted like flames.

This was not the place for Ivy Bennett. At least that was what she convinced herself each time she saw her image in the mirrored pillars: a weary corporate lawyer wearing an overly tight silk dress and excessively high heels. The only reason she agreed to go to this dinner was because her...