Vicki Morgan was a runaway kid from small town America who became the longtime mistress of Alfred Bloomingdale—department store heir, Diner's Club founder, and "kitchen cabinet" confidant of President Reagan. She has been depicted as a high-priced mistress who willingly participated in Bloomingdale's alleged sadomasochistic sex games, relishing a life of high spending luxury, high society, finance and power politics, and as a woman who lived beyond her years and died before her time.

But the woman Gordon Basichis found was much more than a plaything of international society. He found an intelligent girl who thought of herself as a tomboy, yet longed for an enlightened sensibility. He found a woman of traditional values who twice married other men to try to escape her role as Bloomingdale's mistress, and who later disguised herself daily as a nurse to visit Bloomingdale as he lay dying of cancer. He found an American dream gone sour.

Basichis worked with Vicki Morgan almost daily for the nine months leading up to her bizarre murder, and became the chief prosecution witness against Marvin Pancoast in the even more bizarre trial that followed, replete with allegations of "missing" sex tapes involving Reagan cabinet members.

The book is funny and mesmerizing and painful at times. It is a story filled with power, intrigue and obsession..."