Where Whispers Softly Echoed

Elaine Bank's new life begins in her attorney's office at the closing of her new home after her divorce is finalized. As a successful realtor, she is able to afford for her daughter and herself a beautiful new home in an upper middleclass town with her live in nanny. As she settles into her new life, she is thrown into the politics of her daughter's school while trying to compete in her ever changing highly competitive luxury real-estate office. Along the way, Elaine meets the very successful and charming Michael Mason. As Elaine's and Michael's romance blossoms, Elaine continues to get phone calls for Patricia Plante on her new home number. Elaine becomes increasing obsessed with finding out more about Patricia Plante when she realizes that her office has a file on Patricia and recently sold her Mansion in Saddle River and she now resides in Alpine. While looking around the office, Elaine finds more files and medical records on other people, some of whom are now deceased that have obtained mortgages and other services from her office. Together with new love interest, Michael Mason, they follow the trail to a new beautiful development of condos where the deceased clients once owned homes in a beautiful affluent suburb. Their findings of coincidental pancreatic cancers fuels their adventure to discover the truth which only leads them to a deeper philosophical conversation and many different possibilities. The possible causes of illness, corrupt financial bankers who have incorrectly rated mortgage loans, other white collar crimes that have legal loop holes and the dynamics of the PTO at Elaine's daughter's school re the bonding intellectual topics that Michael and Elaine explore that are under the radar.