The time: The Roaring Twenties, this century’s wildest decade. The place: Glittering New York, capital of pleasure, where anything goes – for a price. And Emily Stanton. She came to this city of bright lights and dark corners a lovely young innocent, with a dream of stardom on the legendary stages of Broadway. But in place of that dream, she becomes the star of a dazzling but dangerous world of speakeasies and bootleg gin, mobsters and flappers. Finally, accused of murder, she takes center stage in the murder trial of the decade – a case so sensational its revelations shake even the highest ranks of wealth and power in the city.