The Favor

Widowed Ellen Ross, an urban professor, had no warning of what

awaited her and her three children when she married Garth Epstein,

whose resume read like a fairy tale: handsome, charming, well-educated

and owner of one of oldest and largest ranches in East Texas. What it

didnt list was: narcissistic, arrogant and controlling, with an undertone

of darkness that only Jennifer, her precocious oldest, seemed to

perceive. Garth uprooted the family and moved them to Lake Point,

Texas, a place deeply steeped in old bloodline traditions and prejudices

against women, a piercing thorn in Jennifers liberated and extremely

competitive side.