Red Roses, White Lies — Clarissa McNair

IN A WORLD OF DAZZLE AND DESIRE, LOVE IS OFTEN BLIND

Young and beautiful, ambitious Nina McLean should have had a clear path to happiness. But love kept getting in the way. First with Omar Sarkis, the fabulously wealthy international banker, a man of passion and elegance, who promised her everything, but never delivered. Next there was Mickey Keeling, the Wasp prince who was handsome, charming, tender -- and married. Then into Nina's life came the magnificent man who swept her up in his irresistible embrace--and into his aristocratic world. Claudio de Leone, her greatest Jove was, perhaps, her cruelest mistake.

The glitter of Manhattan and the glamour of Rome...the quickstep of fashion and the jetset social whirl...the time-stopping power of passion and the heartstopping drama of a woman's ultimate moment of truth...