Reality and make-believe are blurred in this tale of obsession, revenge and murder.
One night in 1977, on the dance floor of Studio 54, an aspiring young writer, Byron Hanolan falls in love with Alexandra Bass, one of America's top models. Despite the machinations of Charlotte Bass--Alexandra's formidable mother, the two embark on a consuming love affair that threatens Charlotte's plan that her daughter marry the heir to one of New York's wealthiest banking families.
When the pair is torn apart by a ruthless web of deception, Alexandra flees for a brand new life and stardom in Hollywood. Byron sets out to write the great American novel, but instead, becomes head writer of Harbor Hills, a daytime soap opera on the brink of cancellation. He turns the show into a ratings phenomenon--with a cast of characters whose scandalous off screen lives prove fact is stranger than fiction.
Years later, when fate reunites the former lovers on the set of Harbor Hills, Byron's obsession to win back the great love of his life has tragic consequences...