Alexandra Penney

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I owe the truly brilliant team at Bantam many, many thanks: Linda Grey, Steve Rubin, Stuart Applebaum, plus Jack Hoeft, Matthew Shear, Nina Hoffman, Jill Bennett, Don Weisberg, everyone in the managing editor's office, and of course, at the top, the ultissimo Alberto Vitaié....

ONE Introduction ^ ^ T n my wildest, most romantic dreams I couldn't have -L had a better beginning to a relationship. He'd seen me at a restaurant where a group of us hung out after work and asked a mutual friend for my name. Two days later he called and we made a date for the following...