Rivals

Bestselling author, Janet Dailey, of the Calder saga fame, has created the enthralling story of a passionately powerful woman who suddenly receives a mysterious inheritance, with the strings attached of a decades old and bitter family war, one which she must resolve, or win outright. The heroine, Flame Bennet, an advertising executive in San Francisco, becomes embroiled in an explosive love affair with land baron, Chance Stuart, who turns out to be a distant relative, and the only other heir to the inheritance she's been bequeathed. A feud, fired by old family rivalries, appears to ensnare all in its path, Flame and Chance; Malcom Powell, department store czar and Flame's longtime mentor; and Chance's lover before Flame entered the picture, Lucianna Colton, a world-famous, dark and beautiful diva. Will Flame be destroyed in this battle for love and life? Will they all? This is Janet Dailey at her very best in a mystery suspense thriller romance as big as the raw and raging Southwest, as sophisticated and urban� as Nob Hill, San Francisco. This was Ms. Dailey's 14th work.