A beautiful French actress whose craving for passion and vengeance took her from the gutters of Paris to the bedroom of a powerful billionaire... a dynamic Greek tycoon who never forgot an insult, never forgave an injury... a handsome war hero lured from his wife by a woman no man could resist... and an innocent girl whose dream of love was transformed into a nightmare of fear... Paris and Washington, Hollywood and the islands of Greece are the settings for a dramatic narrative of four star-crossed lives enmeshed in a deadly ritual of passion, intrigue and corruption where the punishment will always exceed the crime...