Black social comedy at its most bitingly perceptive.The dark, wicked. hilarious story of three very different people whose lives become linked by the sudden, egocentric, power-hungry widow, discovers that her late husband's fortune us bequeathed to a crass, vulgar Texan mistress. Felicity herself is the creator of Craven's Hotel - an exclusive boutique style haunt of the rich and famous - but the hotel actually belongs to her brother Sebastian, an idle playboy whom she despises. When he is exposed in a rent-boy scandal, she sets out to destroy him.Meanwhile Claire, the dead tycoon's secretary, deiscovers she is pregnant with his child after a moment of inebraited folly - but she is also diagnosed with leukaemia. These are only three of a marvellous cast of memorable characters in a wickedly enthralling social comedy where fortaune doesn't necessarily smile on the most grasping and devious.