Dina Windsor already knew that it would take big money to do what the billionaires were starting to do, or what she predicted they would do after they had built the biggest yacht, climbed the world’s highest mountains, and had hospitals and football stadiums named after themselves. The billionaires would go all Genghis Khan and try to win the evolution sweepstakes, spread their DNA around by multiplying on a socially unacceptable scale – by paying hundreds, even thousands of women, to be impregnated by artificial insemination.Could a woman beat these rich men at that game? Dina determined that she had a unique historical window of opportunity. She would find the money, find surrogates for her embryos, produce more children than any woman on earth. But narcissistic men, especially if they are ridiculously wealthy, have the resources to collect intelligence on the opposition. From the time Dina is in her early twenties and getting started on this underground, barely-legal project, men with connections to organized crime and to national security services are running covert surveillance on her activities.Bree Esposito, the former Anna Koznitzikova, fourteen and pregnant by the illegitimate son of a Russian oligarch and mafia chieftain, is sent from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Los Angeles as a spy, and sold to an L.A. nightclub owner who wants a Russian bride and children. For twenty years, she edits raw intelligence into the reality show that is Dina’s life, for bosses she hates – billionaires, criminals, and secret service agents.Now it is 2025 and the patriarchs are worried that Dina Windsor’s extended family, also known as the L.A. Multiplier, has become the most successful superclan in the world. They decide to give her a nudge, a warning. Her daughter is the victim of an almost-kidnapping. Her husband is killed.Dina reacts to the threats and her husband’s death with a response so violent that foreign governments request that she be eliminated before a war between the superclans becomes inevitable. The U.S. government says no to an assassination on U.S. soil. The Russians offer to mediate, find a punishment for the L.A. Multiplier that is just as severe as Dina’s death.Bree, now the most experienced intelligence operative spying for the superclans, is ordered to devise the punitive damages. But after twenty years of living in L.A. and raising her children there, her loyalties need rearranging. Bree admires the people who make up the L.A. Multiplier. And it’s clear that Dina is just as dangerous as the crime lords and billionaires and agents of corrupt governments.Can Bree find a diplomatic solution that will prevent a war? Will she survive the anger of those who feel she is favoring one side over the other? Has she put herself in a situation that requires her to order a shooting, a kidnapping, a death, when the side she wants to be on is the one she has to hurt?
advertisement