Rivals - Hardcover

Dailey, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718131916 ISBN 13: 9780718131913

Publisher: Little, 1987

Synopsis

Flame Morgan, the high-class VP of a San Francisco ad agency, is instantly attracted to Chance Stuart, a wealthy, powerful land developer. Chance romances her lavishly but withholds a damaging secret during their whirlwind courtship and quick marriage. Starting with the Oklahoma land rush, there has been bad blood between the Stuart and Morgan clans, but Chance has long desired Morgan's Walk, a family estate that Flame has inherited. Flame believes that Chance only married her to get at Morgan's Walk and blocks his land grab. The story throbs with Dailey's legendary mix of mystery, revenge, jet-set action, and red-hot sex-not to mention her tried-and-true formula for down-home color and sweet romance.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Dailey, who passed away in 2013, was born Janet Haradon in 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa. She attended secretarial school in Omaha, Nebraska, before meeting her husband, Bill. The two worked together in construction and land development until they “retired” to travel throughout the United States, inspiring Janet to write the Americana series of romances, setting a novel in every state of the Union. In 1974, Janet Dailey was the first American author to write for Harlequin. Her first novel was No Quarter Asked. She has gone on to write approximately ninety novels, twenty-one of which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. She won many awards and accolades for her work, appearing widely on radio and television. Today, there are over three hundred million Janet Dailey books in print in nineteen different languages, making her one of the most popular novelists in the world. For more information about Janet Dailey, visit www.janetdailey.com.

From the Inside Flap

"A sure-fire winner."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Flame Bennett was a successful advertising executive, who owed part of her success to her mentor Malcolm Powell. Powell wanted more than just thanks, but Flame had fallen for brash and powerful real-estate mogul Chance Stuart. He wanted Flame at any cost, but his lover, opera diva, Lucianna Colton, was determined that he would never have her. But without their knowing it, the fate of Flame and Chance had been sealed by the past,and a century-old legacy of greed, adultery and murder, would reach out its hand from the grave to ensare them both....

Reviews

Instead of shrinking from cliches, Dailey rushes to embrace them with a fervor that brings passion and fun to the tale she spins, making the latest novel by the author of the bestselling Calder series a sure-fire winner for her fans. Flame Morgan, the blue-blooded, redheaded v-p of a San Francisco ad agency, is instantly attracted to Chance Stuart, a wealthy, powerful land developer. Equally smitten, Chance lavishes diamonds, orchids and hot kisses on her, all the while withholding a destructive secret that comes to light only after their whirlwind courtship and marriage. For years, Chance has hungered for Morgan's Walk, an Oklahoma estate that Flame inherits. Bad blood between the Stuart and Morgan clans goes back to the days of the Oklahoma land rush. Believing that Chance only married her to get at Morgan's Walk, Flame picks up the baton with alacrity, moving ruthlessly to block her husband. Mysterious threats, heated affairs and the heady scent of revenge are liberally sprinkled throughout the novel with Dailey's assured hand. First serial to Cosmopolitan; Literary Guild main selection.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The old adage "nothing new under the sun," could certainly apply to Dailey's new romantic novel. Flame Bennett and Chance Stuart, a larger than life duo, engage in a battle for the Oklahoma property of Morgan's Walk, a home to which they both have familial ties. Of course, the conflict is enhanced by the couple's fierce passion for each other. Again Dailey proves herself to be a master of formula fiction, and while this novel is easily predictable, there's plenty of action, and just enough sex and jet-set milieu, to satisfy the author's enormous following. The gloss is comfortably tempered by a bit of homespun color and a little mystery. Who could ask for anything more? Literary Guild main selection.
- Lydia Burruel Johnson, Mesa P.L., Ariz.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718131916
• ISBN 13: 9780718131913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448