They came of age in the turbulent Sixties, confident that they would never repeat their mothers' mistakes. They pursued careers so successfully that they became like the men their mothers wanted them to marry. They were bright-powerful-accomplished. Small town girls...with big city dreams.
Their journey from the San Joaquin Valley to the dizzying heights of success takes them from glittering film-industry parties in Malibu Beach houses to the high-powered arena of New York network TV, to the stately homes of England, to the opulence of Paris. But wherever they go, however high they climb, a dark secret follows them-a secret they vowed to keep forever. The secret of what happened on high school graduation night.
Now, twenty years later, that secret has come to light... and one of them must pay a huge and terrible price.