Luke Sellmer is on the way up. An investment banker in a long bull market, Luke’s money-making prowess gains him admittance to the elite society to which his fiancé’s family belongs. He is about to achieve the life he’s pursued ever since being released from the State Young Men’s Reformatory. But is it all an illusion? His upcoming marriage to fashionable and well-connected Lauren; his new assignment as financial confidante to a rising political star — these may all be illusions blinding him to the danger signs surrounding a secret side of his life that will end up exposing him to a murder charge and social scandal.