ProvLife is a classic gray-flannel insurance titan: quiet, dignified, ruthless. While other life insurance companies are floundering, ProvLife is flourishing - and about to take the giant step into healthcare coverage.. "Actuary Alex Tynan is not one of the chosen. Trained to analyze the statistics of every potential applicant, she must also care for her aging mother while supporting herself on an entry-level salary. In contrast, Alex's lover, Mark Ferulli, is on ProvLife's fast track, spending raises and bonuses as fast as the company can pay them out. Alex is suspicious about Mark's meteoric rise within ProvLife's hallowed ranks.. "Then a company executive is found dead. When Alex is linked romantically to the dead man, she realizes that she has been set up in some kind of sinister game being played behind the closed doors of ProvLife.