Taking New Jericho

What do you do when the credit card is declined and you discover the family fortune is gone? If you are Samantha Walcot, formerly of the Toronto Walcots, you write a best-selling memoir called Rich Girl, Poor Woman that leaves no sordid detail off the table. But now, with her book out of print and a journalism career cut short by corporate downsizing, Sam pays the rent as a writer-for-hire. Her new assignment: a travel piece on New Jericho, glittering playground for the wealthy tourist, not to mention the first permanent settlement on the moon. Rate a few hotels and restaurants, list the touristy highlights, say some nice things about moon people, all expenses paid. It sounds brilliant. The problem is, the mayor of New Jericho happens to be the man she left standing at the altar ten years ago, and he’s about to lead a revolution. And he’s pulling Samantha into the fray.