Pot of Gold — Judith Michael

On a beautiful spring day, a hard-working single mother's secret fantasy came true.

Claire Goddard won sixty million dollars in the lottery. Claure quit her job, and indulged herself and her seventeen-year-old daughter in the shopping spree of a lifetime; together, they bought a house, cars, gifts and designer clothes. Claire, who had thought herself plain and dull, was now superbly glamorous. Then, on an Alaskan cruise, they met Quentin Eiger and his son Brix--two worldy men whose lives were enmeshed in sex, drugs, the dazzle of the billion-dollar worlds of fashion and cosmetic, and a mystery that would soon entrap both Emma and Claire in its coils. As she watched her daughter fall more deeply under Brix's control, Claire began to realize that she herself was being manipulated by the seductive Quentin. Suddenly exposed to the dark side of luxury, Claire risked losing all that mattered most to her. Now she had to fight for the one thing money could never buy: her precious daughter's love...