Bed of Strangers — Lee Raintree

In Temple County, if you weren't a Coffield you weren't ANYBODY . . .

Avery Coffield, indomitable patriarch of The Shadows, whose precious time was running out.

Elliot, his son, whose forbidden tastes gave him a lust for power ungoverned by family loyalties.

Sandy, Elliot's wife and Avery's lover...she made a $50,000 bargain - and love wasn't part of it.

And most of all, Jessica, with the look about her of a fine-bred filly in heat, a look even her father found hard to resist...

But times were changing fast

Earl Lassiter was through being a nobody. He had returned to Temple County with a dream of a different future and the money and power to make that dream come true. He would lift the town out of its dying cotton fields and move it towards prosperity. But waiting at The Shadows was the lush, voluptuous Jessica, the woman he had wanted all his life. And Jessica had plans of her own for Earl...

Lives would shatter, and a town would burn - a town caught in a treacherous tangle of passion and lies -- a BED OF STRANGERS.