The Business of Vengeance — Lynn Wood

In the high stakes world of pharmaceutical research, a new single drug regularly costs $500 million to bring to market. Now, a small but powerful group of executives has found a way to slant the odds in their companies' favor.

Beautiful Marin Fairfax is thrust into a maze of half-truths and deadly deceits when she is entrusted with a secret that could save the lives of millions and be worth billions of dollars in the wrong hands. To complicate matters, she is being courted by Jack Alexander, a high-powered Wall Street wheeler-dealer, intent on making Marin his latest acquisition.

When a brilliant AIDS researcher and his wife are murdered, Marin and Jack become embroiled in the search to uncover their killers, members of a dread conspiracy that has already targeted Marin. Soon she and Jack become "mice" in a deadly game of cat and mouse, led by a brilliant strategist who will stop at nothing to stop Marin and Jack. A fast-paced suspense thriller laced with glamour and romance.