The first person to say my new name out loud that morning was a man Dominic had been trying to impress for six years.

"Mara Bennett." Paul Adler, senior broker and sponsor of the Manhattan Real Estate Association breakfast, held out his hand like we had known each other longer

Judith Harper chose a coffee shop with no private room and no reason for anyone to remember us. That told me almost as much as the meeting did.

She arrived two minutes early, ordered tea, and put her phone face down on the table. "I am not here to give you confidential in

Northstar took three weeks to say yes. They asked for everything: Tribeca's budget, our contractor references, Nadia's models, my vendor history, and a list of every project either of us had touched in the last five years. At the end of the third week, Caleb Ross calle