Plot CounterPlot Author:Anna Clarke Helen Mitchell was the grande dame of bestselling authors--rich, successful, sophisticated. Brent Ashwood was the enfant terrible--young, handsome, and sensual. She craved passion; he sought imagination...and each had what the other needed. Their affair, Helen insisted, was strictly an experiment for art's... more » sake, a source of inspiration and new material. But when the material includes blackmail, the affair becomes a source of suspicion and terror. And the bond between Helen and her lover twists into a stranglehold from which only one can hope to escape...alive.« less