Summary: In the early 1950s, Bella moves to Chicago with her socialite mother in search for a better situation. Bella, who has reached the final stages of her teenage years, finds it hard to live in the shadow of her husband hunting mother who is feeling increasingly threatened as her beautiful daughter grows up. On their first night in the new city, Bella meets a mysterious and older man who starts a fire in her heart that she can't seem to ignore. As Bella lusts after Edward, so does her mother who sees dollar signs instead of a man. Will Bella flourish in the city at her young age, or will she drown into the sea of people the city holds?