The Second Time Around

Nicholas Spencer,
charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in
the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His
private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not
found.

Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising.
Yet, coinciding with Nicholas Spencer's disappearance comes news that
the FDA is denying approval. Then follows the shocking revelation that
Spencer had looted Gen-stone of huge sums of money -- including the
lifetime savings of people who had risked every penny they had.

Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo, the thirty-two-year-old columnist for the Wall Street Weekly,
is assigned to cover the story. Carley is the stepsister of Spencer's
wife, Lynn, an aggressive PR woman and socialite, whom she dislikes and
distrusts.

The day after news of her husband's disappearance
rocks the financial and medical world, Lynn attends a meeting of the
stockholders of Gen-stone, flaunting expensive clothing and jewelry.
Accused of having participated in the scam, she appears indifferent to
the anger and despair of the people attending, among them a man whose
child has cancer and who is now about to lose his home. That night, she
narrowly escapes death when her mansion in Bedford, New York, is set on
fire. She turns to Carley, begging her to use her investigative skills
to prove that she was not her husband's accomplice.

As Carley
proceeds with her investigation, she is confronted by seemingly
impenetrable questions: Is Nicholas Spencer dead or in hiding? Was he
guilty or set up? Why the sudden reversal in medical opinion of the
vaccine from recognition to condemnation? And as the facts begin to
unfold, she becomes the target of a dangerous group involved in a
sinister and fraudulent scheme.