Hank Mason's passion for lovemaking with beautiful women is only surpassed by his zeal for Airways International, the airline he founded with his own blood, sweat, and tears. A union strike by his flight attendants brings his high life in the glamorous '70s crashing around him. Financial ruin, death threats, sabotage, and a kidnapping explode out of the strike. Only one person can save him-the gorgeous Trina Bellam, head of the union-and she hates what he stands for-using his "girls" as sex objects to thrill him and his flying public. Mason's war with Trina brings him to his senses. He has...

Yesterday, July 16, 1898, Louise Lambert's mother was beaten to death by her boss in a shirt factory in Lower Manhattan. Today, her immigrant mother was laid to rest in a charity grave, leaving Louise, 14, orphaned, penniless, desperate. Louise is pulled from the brutality of the seething ghetto streets and swept into the magic of great wealth by her mother's only friend, Cecilia, who arranges a maid's job for Louise in the home of Henry Flagler, a major partner of John. D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company. The remarkable journey of this naive girl delights, startles, shocks, saddens,...