Riverview Books

The sudden death of patriarch Matthew Stockwell hurls the members of his prestigious, ambitious family into a bitter and passionate struggle to seize the reins of power

The Stockwell family becomes caught up in an international incident that includes kidnapping when Holly marries Zelig Meyerling, Washington's most eligible bachelor

Hard-drinking, irrepressible Fitz Connely inherits a fortune, Stockwell family tempers flare, the Stockwell women find Fitz irresistible, and a murder charge finds Patrice Stockwell torn between the affections of two men

Abandoning her domineering and manipulative Greek husband, Louise Tyler Papatestue returns to the Riverview estate only to encounter the enigmatic Gary Woods, who, in his open affection for Louise, might very well be harboring ulterior motives