Part III starts by re-examining the events leading up to the arrest. She's angry, but realizes that Jonathan wouldn't like her causing drama about it. He's been making a living with his video and music performances. Meanwhile, in prison, Jonathan sees the ghosts of Faisal and Yvette (who had a heart attack as a result of her financial destruction).īefore the arrest, Vincent learns that Paul ended up taking videos she had shot as a kid, adding music and passing them off as his own work. As a result, Vincent quits and in 2013 she joins a ship, the Neptune Cumberland, as an assistant cook. There's a run-in with Mirella (whose boyfriend Faisal is now dead due to Jonathan's misdeeds). After the arrest, Vincent gets a job bartending and in a kitchen. Afterwards, Claire had alerted the authorities, resulting in Jonathan's arrest. There was a meeting where Jonathan had admitted that he was running a Ponzi scheme to his daughter Claire and to Vincent. In Part II, Jonathan is arrested and sentenced to 170 years in prison in December 2008. All of Olivia's money is invested with Jonathan. A few months before it all comes crashing down, Vincent meets, Olivia is a former painter whose only notable sale was a painting of Jonathan's deceased older brother, Lucas. Vincent befriends Mirella, whose boyfriend is a Saudi prince that invests with Jonathan. Jonathan warns that there is a woman, Ella Kaspersky, who is crazy and has been accusing him of fraud. They are not legally married, but she lives as his trophy wife. Jonathan is a wealthy New York financier, and it brings Vincent into a life of luxury, which lasts from 2005-2008. Years later, Walter, the hotel night manager, learns that Jonathan ended up marrying Vincent. Jonathan Alkaitis, a frequent guest and the owner of the hotel property, has a reservation the night the graffiti appears. After a graffiti incident, Paul is asked to leave. In 2005, Vincent and Paul are working at a luxury hotel, The Hotel Caiette. Distraught, he goes to find his half-sister Vincent. In 1999, Paul leaves school after he accidentally gives someone bad drugs, resulting in their death.

In Part I, the book opens with snippets, indicating that someone has fallen off a ship.

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