Closing Costs Author:Seth Margolis If its true that you are where you live, then cunning super-agent Lucinda Wells controls the destiny of New York high society. Embezzlement, forgery, dot-com buststhese are the scandals that pepper the lives of the financiers, entrepreneurs, socialites and inheritors who are vying for the best locations and who will risk everything to own them. ... more »Only Lucinda knows how to expose their weaknesses and play them off against each other, holding the precious key to their kingdoms in the palm of her manicured hand. In three scenarios through which we learn the devastating and occasionally blissful effects of the markets twists and turns, Margolis captures the zeitgeist of a cultural moment. He keeps us on the edge of our seat with the rise and fall of his characters fortunes, in a sizzling tale of the citys power players. Neither The Right Address nor The Gotham Diaries can come close to the mesmerizing realness of Closing Costs.« less