When Catherine constantly refuses and fails an attempted suicide, Noelle plots to kill her. Noelle insists that Larry and Catherine, whose marriage is at its lowest point, divorce so they can be together. However, he becomes unsettled when his co-pilot and his other mistress, Helena - two people compromising his and Noelle's relationship - suddenly disappear. Larry cannot recall her claims of their past, but stays with her for her power. She gets excited and falls in love with him again. She treats him poorly as an employee, pushing him to angrily rape her when she emasculates him. Larry and Catherine move to Greece for his new job, and Noelle discovers that Larry does not even remember her. She learns that Larry is having a difficult time adjusting to a regular life and his aggressive pilot skills make him unsuited to a commercial airline setting, and convinces Demiris to hire him. She becomes his mistress and moves to his private villa. She attracts the attention of Constantin "Costa" Demiris, a powerful Greek whose business extends to every industry in the world. At one point, she risks her plan to help Israel - the only man who has treated her with kindness - escape to Africa from the Nazis.
She seduces two men, actor-singer Philippe Sorel and director Armand Gautier, and becomes a popular name in theater and film. She hires a private investigator and learns of Larry and Catherine's marriage. Meanwhile, Larry returns to the United States and marries Catherine, though their relationship is strained after World War II, since Catherine feels like Larry returned as a different man. Furious over Larry's betrayal, she aborts their unborn child in the most painful way and devotes the rest of her life planning revenge against him.
When he does not return, she develops pneumonia, and is saved by Jewish medical intern Israel Katz, who selflessly helps her get back on her feet. She escapes to Paris, where she is enchanted by American pilot Lawrence "Larry" Douglas, who promises to marry her when he returns from London. She comes to an epiphany that if she can control men, she can be powerful.
She is initially devoted to her father, who capitalizes on her beauty when she comes of age and forces her to be the mistress of Auguste Lanchon, a well-off boutique owner. Set in between the two World Wars, Noelle Page is born to a poor family in Marseille, France, though she is led to believe she is better than everyone else. It was made into a 1977 film, and followed by a sequel written by Sheldon titled Memories of Midnight. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. The Other Side of Midnight is a novel by American writer Sidney Sheldon published in 1973.
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