Love And Money

Rich girl. Poor girl.

Sisters—and strangers.

Enemies—and rivals.

Two women in love with the same man.

 

Beautiful, pampered Park Avenue heiress, Deedee Dahlen, and Lana Bantry, abused child from the wrong side of the tracks, live in different worlds. They share a father but not an inheritance, a lover but not a commitment—and they do not know of each other's existence.


Until a loving father with a shocking secret that ends in murder—and Slash Steiner, the man with the Midas touch—bring the two women face to face in a searing confrontation.


“A spectacular, richly plotted novel. Racing to a shocking climax, this glittering novel is first-class entertainment, a story of love and money, and how both are made, lost, and found again.” —New York Times


“An ideal book. Ruth Harris has done a miraculous job of entwining the lives of two women in a totally believable and fascinating way. Plausible and entertaining, Love And Money reads fast and the time frames ring true. Ruth Harris is a talented writer who has come up with a novel so entertaining and interesting you won’t have to hide if someone asks you what you’re reading.” —West Coast Review of Books


“Fast-paced, superior fiction with a zinging sense of style. A skillfully written, highly commercial “page-turner” Love And Money is also a series of carefully drawn character studies and insightful psychological portraits. 


“Love And Money focuses on three major characters. Deedee Dahlen is a million dollar heiress, ‘born late, as if she knew ahead of time how complicated her life was going to be and needed all the time she could get to prepare for coping with its difficulties.’


“Lana Bantry, Deedee’s illegitimate sister, was born ‘six weeks prematurely, as if she couldn’t wait to get out into the world and take charge.’


“Slash Steiner, the ‘man with the Midas touch’ marries Deedee, but is Lana’s lover.


“Harris makes these characters and the joys and tragedies of their lives exciting and believable. With a narrative style that is crisply precise and descriptive, an unerring ear for dialogue and an overall tone that is strongly reminiscent of Susan Isaacs, Harris has written a terrifically satisfying ‘good read.’” —Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel


“Ruth Harris is in a class by herself!” —Literary Guild


“In this entertaining story, Harris portrays characters who try to assuage their emotional pain by amassing wealth. Harris will keep her fans engrossed as she accentuates the riskiness and unpredictability of lives obsessed with money, setting them against a backdrop of dizzying social change.” —Publisher’s Weekly


Love And Money is the dramatic story of a forbidden triangle and deadly family secrets.

Ruth Harris is a million-copy New York Times bestselling author and Romantic Times award winner.

Love And Money was originally published in hard cover by Random House.


Decades (Park Avenue Series, Book # 1)—This bestselling historical  novel is the compelling story of a marriage at risk, a family in crisis and a woman on the brink set against the tumultuous decades of the mid-twentieth century. "Absolutely perfect." —Publisher's Weekly "Terrific!" —Cosmopolitan "Powerful. A gripping novel." —Women Today Book Club


HUSBANDS AND LOVERS (PARK AVENUE SERIES, Book #2) --A lonely wife. A handsome lover. A jealous husband. A gun in a Tiffany bag.

Husbands And Lovers is a million copy NYT bestseller and Romantic Times Award Winner.

 "Steamy and fast-paced." —Cosmopolitan   


Modern Women (Book # 4)--Million-copy NYT bestseller! Three likable, dynamic women—and the men in their lives. The right men. The wrong men. The maybe men. "Funny, sad, vivid, and raunchy. Harris seeks to enliven and entertain, and she does it in spades." --Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Ruth Harris's rapier wit spices up a superb 'rags to riches' novel. You'll love Modern Women." --West Coast Review of Books "Sharp and stylishly written." —Chicago Sun-Times


The Last Romantics (Book # 5)--A sweeping historical novel set in Paris and New York during the glamorous Jazz Age of the 1920's. He is dashing, handsome and celebrated but dangerously flawed. She is a gifted fashion designer who has the world at her feet. She is beautiful, charming, lonely, haunted. "I love it, I love it! Fantastic, immensely readable." —Cosmopolitan "Gloriously romantic.” —Kirkus