The Mirage Hotel and Casino of the mid-nineties, is the definitive setting for a unique perspective on life in “sin city.” For Georgia Kassov Cates, “...perfect wife, loving mother, good person...” Vegas becomes Hemingway’s “Clean Well-lighted Place.” And then the lights go out, literally..Georgia confronts past fears as well as present dangers, and deals with a gambling addiction that leads to embezzlement. The mysterious connection among several characters is rooted in dismal late nineteen-forties Germany, and told in "Alexandra," a novel within the novel, which explores the psychological and sociological anomalies that young Americans were exposed to while living in an occupied country that still bore the festering sores of Hitler’s “scorched earth” campaign.