Heiress

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Heiress is Janet Dailey's spellbinding story of two beautiful women with a mysterious and powerful past. Rivals in love, rivals in business, rivals in life, Abbie Lawson and Rachel Farr are bound together by a fateful secret: bom on the same day, their father the same man, only one of them is legitimate. At the funeral for Dean Lawson, killed suddenly at the age of fifty-six, his daughter Abbie glimpses a woman who looks so much like herself that it's shocking. She soon leams that the woman is the love child bom to Dean Lawson and a fiery, independent artist—and the sister Abbie never knew she had. In a saga that sweeps from Houston's glamorous River Oaks to the empires of Texas oil and Arabian horses and the cherished family ranch, "River Bend," each woman is confronted with a shattering succession of betrayals and spectacular revelations as she tries to prove herself to be the rightful heiress. At stake are the family estate and its famous Arabian horse farm; the family fortune... Tovább

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Heiress is Janet Dailey's spellbinding story of two beautiful women with a mysterious and powerful past. Rivals in love, rivals in business, rivals in life, Abbie Lawson and Rachel Farr are bound together by a fateful secret: bom on the same day, their father the same man, only one of them is legitimate. At the funeral for Dean Lawson, killed suddenly at the age of fifty-six, his daughter Abbie glimpses a woman who looks so much like herself that it's shocking. She soon leams that the woman is the love child bom to Dean Lawson and a fiery, independent artist—and the sister Abbie never knew she had. In a saga that sweeps from Houston's glamorous River Oaks to the empires of Texas oil and Arabian horses and the cherished family ranch, "River Bend," each woman is confronted with a shattering succession of betrayals and spectacular revelations as she tries to prove herself to be the rightful heiress. At stake are the family estate and its famous Arabian horse farm; the family fortune and the Lawsons' position in the Texas aristocracy; and the true claim to their father's love.
Abbie, the privileged Houston debutante, starts out with an early lead, but Rachel, an unassuming, lonely woman from Los Angeles, quickly leams the sophisticated ways of Abbie's world,
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and soon the two are running a neck-and-neck race—one whose stakes are higher than either could have imagined. An emotional steeplechase of passion and powei; Heiress follows the life of each sister as she is challenged by the extraordinary and vibrant men in their lives: Rachel by Lane Canfield, Dean's oldest friend and the executor of his will, and Ross Tibbs, the country singer and songwriter who becomes a star; Abbie by MacCrea Wilder the brash and irresistible oil wildcatter
With her meticulous research and eye for detail, Janet Dailey sweeps us into the historical and contemporary allure of the particularly American landscape that is Texas, setting her story against the backdrop of its volatile oil industry and the equally exciting international business of importing, breeding, and racing Arabian horses—a passion that Abbie and Rachel share, and the arena of their fiercest competition.
Heiress is a compelling saga of romance and jealousy, with characters as strong as the forces that shape their destinies. This vivid, penetrating novel of women's lives and men's loves, in which only one sister can claim the legacy that truly marks her as the heiress, is Janet Dailey's finest work.
Janet Dailey is America's best-selling female novelist, with more than 126 million copies of her books in print. Her most recent novels include The Great Alone, The Glory Game, and Silver Wings, Santiago Blue. She and her husband, Bill, live in the Ozark Mountain country of Branson, Missouri.
Jacket illustration by Deborah L. Chabrian Author photo by Flash Photo
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