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Growing up in a modest, endlessly flat neighborhood in Des Moines, Iowa, Frankie discovered early on that her mind was a sharper instrument than any available in her immediate zip code. She was also, inconveniently, breathtaking. In a town where beauty usually meant sun-bleached hair and cheerleader pom-poms, Frankie possessed a severe, classical allure, black hair, well tanned skin, a gaze heavy-lidded and predatory, and a body that seemed sculpted by an artist with a penchant for sin. Her escape hatch was printed on glossy paper. At eighteen, mere weeks after graduating high school, a scouting photographer spotted her. By nineteen, Francesca was living in Los Angeles, her centerfold spread in Playboy hitting newsstands just as she enrolled in UCLA. Los Angeles is a city built on illusions, and Frankie understood the architecture of desire better than most architects. She quickly realized that the tuition for university, the rent on her sleek apartment, and the upkeep of her wardrobe could not be covered by university stipends. She needed patrons. She wanted men who had accumulated fortunes alongside their wrinkles. Frankie approached dating with the rigor of a corporate merger. Her calendar is a meticulously color-coded tapestry of dinners at Nobu, weekend getaways to Cabo, and charity galas in Bel-Air. Her companions are invariably men old enough to be her father (or grandfather)—venture capitalists, aging studio heads, tech magnates, and real estate moguls. To them, she is the ultimate accessory: stunning enough to stop traffic, and intelligent enough to hold her own at a table of hedge-fund managers. But Frankie is never anyone’s victim. She views the arrangement as a free-market exchange of assets. They pay for her time, her beauty, and her razor-sharp wit; she collects tuition money, designer bags, and—most importantly—connections. Her friends joke that her life resembles a high-stakes game of Monopoly, where she owns all the railroads and charges heavy rent.