The Wicked Game

Zoe and her best friend Stella move through the city's elite as the beautiful, wicked women kept by powerful men: Stella by Jean Vance, heir to old money, and Zoe by tech mogul Damian Blackwood. They pool what they are given and hold every rival at bay—until an ingenue arrives and both men turn on them, freezing accounts and casting them aside.

Unfazed, the two women retreat to an apartment bought with their own saved money. Zoe sets her sights on Azure Vista, Damian's luxury development, and walks into his birthday gala with a USB drive and a demand: five percent of the project. The drive holds nothing, but Damian's paranoia does the work, and the contracts are signed.

Now holding Azure Vista's internal documents, Zoe and Stella see that the project rests on the reclusive architect Alistair Finch—and on Jenny Dallas, whose celebrated thesis may not be her own.