Awakening in Manhattan

Before she was the ruthless CEO of Vance Dynamics. Before the Hamptons mansion, the silver fountain pen, and the scent of sandalwood, Victoria Vance was a girl from Bakersfield who married a last name and learned how to disappear inside it.She is thirty years old, with a husband who adores her without ever quite seeing her, a sister-in-law who corrects even the way she holds a wine glass, and a company that needs forty million dollars she can only secure by remaining, in public, the perfect Mrs. Charles Vance.Adrienne Loomis needs nothing from her. She is a partner at an investment firm, carries her own last name, has her own permanently reserved table, and is the first person who looks at Victoria and sees the founder, not the wife. What begins in a Park Avenue boardroom becomes, summer after summer, country clubs, black-tie dinners, and a half-ruined house facing the Atlantic that the two of them rebuild in secret.But Victoria has an empire to protect and a name that does not entirely belong to her. And when the price of keeping Adrienne begins to carry an exact number, she will have to decide how much of herself she is willing to lose in order not to lose everything.Awakening in Manhattan is the prequel to Awakening in the Hamptons and the second book in the Salt and Sandalwood series.