Isabelle
is a stubborn and lively woman that has tenaciously worked for years,
doing every sort of jobs to keep her studies in order, with the purpose
to achieve excellent credentials to become a successful manager. Then,
one beautiful day her dream comes true, she gets a position as personal
assistant of Damian Moore, known magnate of an industry of the communications,
president of the Karma Communication, but very soon she realizes than
this enterprise is arduous.
Her
boss, veteran of a marriage with a woman that wounded and cheated him,
is an introverted and gloomy, unmanageable and gruff person, especially
with her, since he believes that her entry in his company have been
obtained by dispensing sexual favors at the mayor of New York City.
The
novel takes place in the heart of Manhattan, around these two strong
personalities that are searched and that are distanced in a continuous
game of looks and hints, of subtle messages that don’t leave space
to the words, assiduously eluded, considered by Damian an element too
much overvalued to knowing and to know him, to show oneself and what
one wants.
And
around them, simultaneously, dangerous situations are evolved, plots,
intrigues, stories kept hidden too for a long time, which will inevitably
lead them to live a dramatic end, an escaped danger, a newfound happiness.
"The
secret to recognize people, falsity or ambiguity, had been always that
of scrutinizing their look,
it was there that all the qualities or the short-coming of the human
beings emerged, with the words you could lie,
disguise, but not with the eyes."