When Harriet Mahoney first saw it, Isabel Krugs bed was covered in sheared
sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. The unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted
Harriet had fled wintry Manhattan in response to a mysterious ad in The New York Review
of Books: Book in progress? Why not share my Cape Cod retreat? Roomy and
peacefulyour life will be your own.

In a room with a view atop a Truro dune, Harriet starts on a different path to fulfillment by ghostwriting
The Isabel Krug Story, based on the sexy blondes tabloid pastspecifically, a nasty night in
Greenwich, Connecticut, when Guy Van Vleet died and Isabel lived to tell about it on Court TV.

Unusually talented in the man department, Isabel revamps and inspires Harriet as they gear up to tell
all, including the tangled history Isabel shares with her odd lodger, an artist called Costas. Life
according to Isabel is a soap-opera extravaganza, an experience to be swallowed wholeand the
attitude is catching.