Beauty, love & justice - Alcina Faraday

A modern morality tale of reality-averse GenX/Y outliers seeking success and heroism in the moshpit of contemporary life

Tiago's had enough of corporate life. He's going to be a saint. Ruthless and rich, a seal-pup cute young Turk of the trading floor, he has killer plans to restore global economic justice that will get him a halo to set off his Tom Ford suit. But lovesick Tiago can't get started until he's convinced urbane art dealer Raphael Davide they'd make a fantastic power couple. Raphael's a slave to beauty with his own designs on the undeserving rich—but his suave exterior belies a brittle heart. His bluestocking sister Clara and her husband Rob would lay down their lives to protect him. And Raphael's reluctant ex, cracked rocket scientist Tomas Paul Gosele, may know enough about Tiago's grubby past to blow everything sky high. Our hero needs friends he can trust. Good thing his new neighbor Amelia Postthridge seems a nice enough girl, as gene stackers go. But Amelia's an apple-obsessed tadpole torturer who prefers trees to people—and she'll chew up Tiago and spit out the pips to achieve her own plans.