A complicated page-turner about a wealthy NY family embroiled in a financial scandal with cataclysmic implications. Given that he’s married to Merrill Darling, child of billionaire financier Carter Darling, lawyer Paul Ross is continuing to grow accustomed to New York society and all of its luxuries: a Recreation area Avenue apartment, weekends in the Hamptons, bespoke fits. When Paul manages to lose his job, Carter offers him the chance to head the legal group at his hedge finance. Thrilled along with his fortune in about The Darlings: A Novel the midst of the most severe financial downturn since the Great Despair, Paul accepts the positioning.

But Paul’s good fortune is about to shift: a tragic event catapults the Darling family into the media spotlight, a regulatory analysis, and a red-hot scandal with enormous implications for everyone involved. Abruptly, Paul must decide where his loyalties lie-will he save himself while betraying his wife and in-laws or protect the family members business at all costs?

Cristina Alger’s glittering debut book interweaves the narratives of the Darling family members, two anxious SEC attorneys, and a group of journalists all racing to uncover-or cover up-the truth. With echoes of a fictional Too Big to Fail as well as the books of Dominick Dunne, The Darlings provides an irresistible glimpse in to the highest echelons of NY society-a globe seldom seen by outsiders-and a fast-paced thriller of epic proportions.