Deep In The Heart
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A spellbinding story of love and money, desire and ambition, DEEP IN THE HEART sweeps from a small town in 1960's Texas to the heady elegance of Houston in the money-worshiping '80s ... when oil flowed like water, and black gold set fantasies on fire. It was a time of excess and ecstasy, where wealth and power knew no bounds. For a woman with big dreams, Texas was the place to be ...
Carly Anderson is as different from the other girls in Verity, Texas, different as day is from night. Stifled by the petty jealousies and close-mindedness of the small town, Carly leaves Verity -- and her broken heart behind and heads for Houston. There, ambition and financial savvy combine to make her one of the most powerful and respected businesswomen in the city. Daring to enter a profession dominated exclusively by men, Carly becomes a major player in a vast real estate empire. Yet with each step up the ladder, she will be tested -- and tempted -- by three extraordinary and very different men:
Once again, BARBARA BICKMORE proves herself a master storyteller in a dramatic, richly atmospheric novel of ambition, desire and the many faces of love. Another gem in a stellar career, DEEP IN THE HEART is also a story of mothers and daughters, and the enduring friendships that fulfill and sustain us. And in Carly Anderson, Ms. Bickmore gives us a true heroine for the ages ... a woman who confronts the critical choices each of us must face in order to discover where true happiness lies.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A new dramatic saga featuring passion, secrets, betrayals and scandals-Texas style-allows Bickmore (Homecoming) to chart the vicissitudes endured by her ambitious heroine, Carly Anderson, as she moves from small-town poverty to social prominence and well-deserved riches. Carly and her voluptuous widowed mother move to Verity, Tex., when Carly is a teenager, but the community never accepts them, even when Carly dates local golden boy Boomer Bannerman, or when her mom marries the town's wealthy banker. The high school sweethearts drift apart after graduation, and come together again briefly in booming Houston in the 1970s when both are poised for meteoric success-Carly as a high-profile real estate broker and Boomer as a developer who populates the city skyline. After each marries into Houston's elite society, the couples become friends and partners. A decade later, their marriages and fortunes fail as the oil and real estate markets crash, and the Savings and Loans scandals rock the nation. Carly and Boomer return to Verity to start anew, together. Brickmore tells her story energetically, with a spirited evocation of the Texas landscape and a good-humored tolerance for her characters' foibles.
