From tire author of Eagles, Heritage, and The

Lion s Way comes a story of love and political

intrigue set within the worlds of big business and

the powers behind the media.

Orphaned during World War II, in a German

bombing raid, Roland Eagles vows to restore his

family s name to prominence in postwar Britain.

Starting with only a bankrupt company, Roland

creates a department-store and newspaper

empire. Against even greater adversity, he elopes

with Catarina Menendez, the beautiful daughter of

the Argentinian ambassador to England. Tragically,

Catarina dies within months, leaving behind an

iniant daughter, Roland s beloved Katherine.

Katherine s childhood is spent amid a pampered

environment of large houses, expensive clothes

and jewels, horses, fast cars, and the adoration of

her father. At sixteen, on vacation in Monte Carlo,

she meets and falls in love with the irresistibly

attractive son of one of her father s German associ-

ates. After conducting their romance from afar for

nearly four years, they finally wed.

For Katherine and Franz, married life is blissful,

made even more so by the births of a son and a

daughter. Franz becomes one of Roland s most

trusted executives, while Katherine s talents as a

journalist propel her to the ttont ranks of Fleet

Street as a reporter on Roland s Daily Eagle -- and

eventually to the glamorous world of television

and her own investigative news program. But

when a hideous accident leaves her young hus-

band crippled,Kathenne s perfect life is shattered.