Tana Roberts led a picturesque life. Except that it wasn't really her life. It was her mother's unlived fantasy. Still, Tana could not avoid her mother's deeply cynical view of relationships. For years, her mother Jean has been the mistress of a wealthy married man, Arthur, and Tana is determined not to end up in the same situation. One fateful night during a college party, Tana is raped by Arthur's son Billy. Turning to her mother for support, she finds silence instead. Her mother's coldness reinforces Tana's disenchanted view of herself and her surroundings. Burying herself in her college studies and later in her career as a powerful lawyer and aspiring judge, she is unable to...
