Transforming herself from a small town nobody into the most glamorous actress of her day, Elizabeth Eden dared to take on the studio system. At 33 she was dead.

Twenty years later, Tess Jordan, escaping a life of crime on the streets of NYC, has become Hollywood’s most powerful female executive. She has her own reasons for making her first movie project - the shattering true story of Elizabeth Eden.

Meanwhile the charismatic son of former President Tom Madigan is making his own run for the White House, and Tess soon discovers that the wealthy and powerful will stop at nothing to ensure the secrets of the past remain buried forever.