Penelope Hargan, a country girl from the Midwest of the USA, in the region of Missouri, is trying to get her law license, working in the meantime as an intern at a large law firm in New York.

Cornelius Linus Maxwell is a billionaire, with a rich love life among the most famous and powerful women in the world, and is every woman's secret dream.

When the two of them meet, what will happen? What kind of relationship can be created between them?
When, therefore, the country girl from Nebraska of Missouri meets the passionate, charming, and wealthy man, then not only the fairy tale of Cinderella with the prince is verified, but many other things happen, not so fairy-tale-like... that change the world as we know it. Chuck Palahniuk, author of "Fight Club," with his new cult novel introduces us to contemporary, unprecedented reflections on love, relationships, technology, power... even though he himself said he wrote it for fun.