Fern Michaels

Vegas Rich Fern Michaels

Publisher Marketing: With a heart full of dreams, Sallie Coleman leaves Texas and heads west determined to get as far from the squalor of her dirt poor beginnings. With its shifting sands, smoky saloons, and bingo palaces, Las Vegas seems like a paradise. A paradise where an extraordinary twist of fate makes Sallie the most powerful businesswoman in Nevada. Suddenly she is rich. With the help of Philip Thornton, the handsome Bostonian, Sallie is transformed into Vegas's most elegant first lady. Philip gives her two sons, Simon and Ash. One will bring her great joy, the other, heartbreak. Enter Fanny Logan the small-town beauty from Pennsylvania who finds her destiny in Las Vegas, where she creates a multi-million dollar clothing empire and finds happiness and heartbreak as the wife of Ash Thornton, and the daughter Sallie never had Ash Thornton, whose life centers around his greatest triumph Babylon, the magnificent casino that will lead to his downfall Simon Thornton, whose search for meaning takes him to the battlefields of World War II, the trading rooms of Wall Street and finally back to Nevada where he falls in love with the wife of his rival. Fern Michaels creates another memorable family and series of books as she did with the Texas series "Texas Rich," "Texas Heat," "Texas Fury," and "Texas Sunrise."" Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/01/1996 pg. 774 (EAN 9781575660578, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 06/24/1996 pg. 46 (EAN 9781575660578, Hardcover) Booklist 06/01/1996 pg. 1630 (EAN 9781575660578, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Michaels, Fern Fern Michaels is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood and Godmothers Series, Fancy Dancer, Tuesday s Child, Betrayal, Southern Comfort, Return to Sender, Mr. and Miss Anonymous, and dozens of other novels and novellas. There are over seventy-five million copies of her books in print. Beyond her writing, Fern Michaels has a passion for giving back to her community, and has built and funded several large day-care centers in her hometown, and has outfitted police dogs across the country with special bulletproof vests. Originally from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Michaels now resides near Charleston, South Carolina. Contributor Bio:  Merlington, Laural Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including one for Never Say Die by Susan Jacoby.