Uncovering an embezzlement scheme linked to the highest levels of power at her mega-bank, junior analyst Riley Moon forges an unlikely alliance with the bank's famously eccentric client, Emerson Knight, a financial whiz who helps her uncover one of the century's biggest crimes.

A bright and ambitious woman with a dead-end job takes advantage of those around her until the consequences of a crime committed to advance her life pose the ultimate challenge to her truthfulness.

Embezzling a small fortune from her daughters' private school to finance personal luxuries, Marion goes on the lam when her activities are exposed by a school audit, in a story also told from the points of view of her baffled husband and heartsick daughters.