Sleeping Beauty
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- $29.99
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- $29.99
Publisher Description
Judith Michael brings us a mesmerizing story of love, politics, family, and revenge in Sleeping Beauty.
She has money, possessions, power. Now love becomes the only measure of success…
From a wealthy Chicago suburb to the streets of San Francisco, from Los Angeles to Washington’s treacherous enclaves, from a chic Colorado resort to the site of a fabulous treasure buried in Egypt, Judith Michael brings us a mesmerizing story of love, politics, family and revenge…
Anne Garnett is a brilliant Los Angeles divorce lawyer—tough, smart, and untouchable. The vulnerable girl who ran away from her wealthy, influential family is hidden now behind the glossy façade of her high-powered career. Only the death of Anne’s beloved grandfather can bring her back to the town he built—Tamarack, the Colorado playground of the rich and famous. Once there she is drawn again into the tangled passions and fortunes of who betrayed her so long ago…
Embraced by a sister’s love, challenged by a man who offers her everything she could want, Anne is confronted once more by Senator Vincent Chatham, the charismatic man who still waits to destroy her. But Anne is no longer a frightened girl. She is a proud, beautiful woman who must release the paralyzing pain of the past and discover her power to win…in a battle for family empire, honor, and the richest treasure of all…a deep, abiding love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The husband-and-wife team of Judith Barnard and Michael Faine ( A Ruling Passion ) has again created a swift-moving drama set against some rich and exotic backgrounds. The wealthy, influential Chatham family, founders of a Chicago-based realty empire, present a wholesome image to the outside world. But 30-year-old financial whiz Vince Chatham has raped his 13-year-old niece, Anne, and continues to abuse her sexually. When Anne overcomes her fear and guilt to accuse Vince at a family gathering, she is met with skepticism from her relatives and denial from Vince. After Anne runs away from home, however, Vince is stripped of his position at the corporation; enraged, he vows to destroy the rest of the Chatham clan. Nineteen years later, Anne, although emotionally scarred, has become one of Los Angeles's top divorce lawyers and is warily beginning a relationship with a renowned archeologist. Thoroughly unprincipled Vince is now a U.S. senator from Colorado, with his eye on the White House. He is powerful enough to cause grave financial harm to the family's cherished resort property in Tamarack, Colo., and when he finds that Anne has risen to prominence he coolly plots her murder. The plot moves smoothly, with ease and style, deftly combining romance, intrigue and nonstop action.
