A Ruling Passion - Softcover

Michael, Judith

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ISBN 10: 0671701258 ISBN 13: 9780671701253

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1990

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Born to silk and sable, pampered socialite Valerie Sterling is shattered by her husband's death and the mysterious loss of her wealth. But she finds within herself the will to make it on her own, and rekindles a romance with Nicholas Fielding, head of a major television network. Valerie is utterly unaware of the dangerous passions she is stirring up in Sybille Enderby, her childhood friend and daughter of a seamstress on one of Valerie's estates. Clawing her way up in the television industry, Sybille has always longed to possess all that Valerie has. Yet success, marriage and the glittering whirl of society cannot quench her envy of her friend... an envy that's grown into a powerful obsession. Nothing, no one, can satisfy her until she achieves her secret goal... to destroy Valerie.

From California's shores to Washington, D.C., from New York City to Virginia's hunt country, A RULING PASSION draws us into a vivid, richly textured world - a compelling drama of ambition and desire, of family and fortune, of passions sometimes stronger than love.

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About the Author:

Judith Barnard and Michael Fain, a husband and wife writing team, live in Chicago and Aspen, Colorado. All their novels have been bestsellers, both in Britain and America.

From Publishers Weekly:

This plodding riches-to-rags and rags-to-riches tale is likely to disappoint fans of Michael's glittering bestseller Inheritance . Privileged and beautiful Valerie Sterling arrives at Stanford, and ignores fellow student Sybille, daughter of her mother's dressmaker, to dabble in acting and dally with Nick, an impoverished student who loves her. Two bad marriages later, Valerie loses a cheating husband and a fortune in a mysterious plane crash, but finds her courage. Sybille, meantime, marries and divorces Nick, then scrambles to the top of the heap in network news. Her envy and hatred of Valerie snowball when Valerie becomes an investigative reporter at the cable network Nick owns and digs up dirt on a televangelist show Sybille has launched. A one-dimensional cast brings little sparkle to the predictable plot. Only in the final quarter is there excitement enough to carry the heavily padded prose to a spirited conclusion. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections.
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