When beautiful young Willa Reade first saw the wild California coast called the Malibu, she knew she had come home. It was here, with her handsome aristocratic husband, Owen, and her crippled sister Lena, that Willa would build her empire. -- The M...
EVERY PASSION HAS ITS PRICE IN A GLORIOUS AND EXPLOSIVE AGE Prohibition...bootleg gin...motion pictures...Hallie Duer covers them all. As the star journalist for San Francisco's leading newspaper she probes the heart of the hottest stories of the ...
California in the 1960s and 70s forms the background to a saga of one family’s passions, past and present, played out against the explosive era of the Vietnam War. It follows the young part-Chinese heiress, May Reade, as she searches through her il...
Sweeping across almost half a century, this epic novel chronicles the turbulence of change and the power of love, from the final decades of the 1800s through World War I. As a majestic, ancient culture is thrown into turmoil by the aggression of mod...