<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A keen exuberant unexpected story of friendship and ambition among the newly minted...I loved it. -Beatriz Williams&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;</em>bestselling author of&nbsp;<em>A Hundred Summers</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Four bright young graduates charge into the real world with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>M.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> our narrator is one of the few young women at her prestigious investment bank who insists she will always prefer her signet ring to any diamond.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Belle&nbsp;</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is M.'s college best friend a whimsical romantic who escapes into the pretty world of her viral blog when tragedy strikes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chase</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;is Belle's British-American on-again off-again boyfriend. Equal parts fraternity bro and Savile Row he is M.'s colleague and arch nemesis.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jeremy</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>&nbsp;is M.'s new friend an earnest modern-day Gatsby who would rather be piloting a hot air balloon than stuck behind his Wall Street desk.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As they are pulled deeper into their new lives style and substance-and dreams and reality-increasingly blur. In this fake plastic world what do success and happiness and love even look like?</span></p>