BEAUTIFUL INEZ, by critically acclaimed novelist Bart Schneider, is the story of the lovely and talented Inez, a physical beauty, violinist of prodigious talent, and wife of San Francisco attorney Jake Roseman (the protagonist of Schneider’s last novel Secret Love). After the birth of her second child, Inez becomes possessed by a quiet engine that drives her toward annihilation. Set in San Francisco in 1962, BEAUTIFUL INEZ begins as a story of family and failed marriage, but, as Inez falls in love with a younger woman, it becomes a passion play of love and deception. World English Rights sold Shaye Areheart for the Shaye Areheart imprint at Harmony/Random.