The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an American family's traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons' pre-eminence as society's elite is threatened -- not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneur -- but from its own arrogance and greed. At the center of the story is George Amberson Minafer, the pampered but pitiful, scion of the clan upon whose shoulders...

A pregnant, penniless woman returns to her hometown and discovers that several of her old enemies are living out the life she left behind, from the jealous half-sister who married her high-school sweetheart to a fired teacher-turned-novelist who bought her childhood home.

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. His quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment at college leads to a series of relationships, until he is cast out of paradise into the frightening labyrinth of the real world.

Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes complicated when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would kill such charming young women? As Maisie investigates, she discovers that the answers to all her questions...

As she struggles to establish her detective agency, Raisin Investigations, in the Cotswolds, Agatha Raisin stumbles through the investigation of a death threat on a wealthy divorcée's daughter, aided by her old friend Sir Charles Fraith.

Olivia Morrison, raised by her affluent, well-born step-father John Archer on a lavish estate in Louisiana, enjoyed a life of privilege until she ran off with a cowboy and left the Archers behind. Years later, with he eight-year-old, Sara, in tow, Olivia returns to that long-ago estate. Olivia thinks she is prepared for a chilly reception, but she doesn't expect the emotions that churn when she comes face to face again with Seth, her older step-cousin,...

What will it take to tame a rebel's heart? Two--time world champion bull rider Rafe Noble had no idea how quickly his world could end.

Wealthy, white South African woman Julie Summers, contemptuous of her privileged background, becomes involved with Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, and when he is deported, insists on marrying him and going to live in the primitive conditions of his home village.

Bettina Ballentyne is a chocolate heiress only by name, it is her glamorous and narcissistic mother, Babs, who lives up to the billing and plays by no one's rules. Navigating a simultaneously treacherous and alluring landscape of wealth, sex, and decadence-first in her privileged childhood in Chicago and later at a top-tier east coast boarding school-Bettina must figure out how to reconcile her yearning for maternal affection with her mother's take-no-prisoners-style...

Gold digger Vera Lomax schemes against the daughter of one of her rich older husband's mistresses in order to ensure his fortune remains his.