Attorney Iris Snowe drinks too much, eats too much, and spends too much. Her love life has been as spectacularly unsuccessful as her law practice, so she spends her evenings in her tiny apartment watching bad TV and talking to her cat. A one-night stand with a gorgeous stranger changes the trajectory of her life. Ryan Gallagher not only looks like a Ralph Lauren model, but is extraordinarily wealthy. In other words, stratospheres out of Iris' league. What happens next is that Iris embarks upon the Cinderella affair of her life, with a man who truly loves her. But the fairy tale is fractured, as the affair is marred by obsession, jealousy, and dark secrets that Ryan has desperately sought to conceal and repress. And one of those secrets just might be deadly...