Synopsis
Elana Diamond's 35th birthday isn't much to celebrate. She's still alone and depressed, so this year the make-a-wish-candles can do you-know-what with themselves. And her arch rival at work, who thanks to her flawless judgment also happens to be her ex-fiancé, is being groomed to fire her. Fighting to keep her job, she can't afford to pay attention to her non-existent personal life, much less the sudden rash of suicides going on in Manhattan?all professional women, all just like her. Then someone closely connected to Elana becomes the next suicide. She can no longer ignore the dying women, or anything else. An intense, secretive reporter surfaces, claims to be a friend, but he's a little too knowledgeable, a little too curious. Reluctantly, Elana tries to figure out why the suicide happened, and if this reporter is involved. She finds herself lured into a consuming world of shame and dieting, where going under a medically induced vanity coma to lose weight makes sense. A kind neurologist tries to help, but when Elana finds out what really happened with the suicide, she's in so deep she might not survive it. Anyone who tries to help her won't either. And no one seems interested in facing the truth. Racing against time, and fighting her own demons, Elana must try to find enough evidence for the truth to be heard, whether or not she makes it.
About the Author
Rivka Tadjer is a sign-of-the-times writer. She specializes in the sociological implications of the techno-centric era--how our behavior is changing. She has devoted a lot of ink to the issues of privacy, security, and identity.Tadjer has written for newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, as well as many business papers, magazines and online outlets, including: The Wall Street Journal Interactive, Business Week, Red Herring, and Working Woman, and CBS MarketWatch. She has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Interactive, as well as for several tech magazines. She has written for TV news, including doing on-air appearances for Internet privacy issues, and authored a non-fiction book for Microsoft Press, called Small Business Solutions for Financial Management, to help entrepreneurs compete with large corporations.After they started trying to dose the New York press corps with Anthrax, Tadjer started writing novels. Tadjer also does consulting work for select high-tech companies, marketing firms, and non-profit organizations in the arts and education. Projects include: Working toward making the voting system in this country less hackable and able to provide voters with a receipt; and marketing for a natural medicine/nutrition practitioner who specializes in Eastern methods applied to Western principles, and creating sustainable agriculture. She is the Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Woodstock Day School, a progressive, independent private school.Tadjer's hometown is Washington, D.C. She went to Boston University and then University of Maryland, studying philosophy and journalism, when those two things weren't mutually exclusive. She is a first-generation American who lived in L.A. briefly, Manhattan for most of her adult life, until she scurried to live on high ground in Woodstock, NY.
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