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Love and violence thrive in the glamorous diplomatic worlds of Washington, Rio de Janeiro and the Texas oil fields in this suspenseful novel that opens in Midland, Texas in the summer of 1949. Midland is a booming oil town, thrust up from the West Texas prairie. Virile young men have flocked out from the East after the Second World War with adventure and the desire for a quick fortune in their veins. "Yalies" theyre called by the Texans and Peter Spaulding is one of them. Twenty-eight, handsome, attractive to women, yet moody and unhappy much of the time, he has broken away from his socialite...

Played out against the actual events of the times, Muriel Maddox's novel is an absorbing story of two sisters, Barbara and Annabel Ashford, who grow up in a privileged life in Washington, DC and whose lives take divergent paths. Barbara, the older creative daughter, longs desperately for a baby sister, and when finally Annabel arrives, she is ecstatic. She will now have someone to play with and share secrets with in the house on Tracy Place. But things will turn out far differently than Barbara expected. Set in the wealthy Virginia hunt country and the glamorous capitals of Paris and Beirut,...

In two widely disparate novellas, Maddox explores different times and settings as she takes readers from present-day Switzerland where a past secret endangers the present, to the 1930s in Rio de Janiero as the threat of war in Europe creates only one of the dilemmas faced by an American Navy wife.

Nikos Meletis, the married captain of a Greek cruise ship, and Alexa Hollister, a beautiful young widow from Connecticut, fall deeply in love in this story of adventure and drama surrounding two people from different worlds that leads to a surprising conclusion.

A bittersweet romantic saga of three generations of a wealthy and socially prominent American family told with grace and sweeping lyricism, full of surprise and illuminating the human condition.