Synopsis: From the back cover of the Del Rey first edition: Aventine - A resort for the superrich and the supersophisticated on a bucolic planet at the crossroads of the civilized galaxy; where lifestyle and living quarters are limited only by imagination; where furniture changes shape and color to match the owners mood; where statuary moves and the stones sing; where split personalities live without pressure to become normal... Aventine - Where beautiful women and twisted artists can get away with murder.