A mother's lust for power... A daughter's desire for revenge. Eleanor Vandelier—a woman of invincible strength and ruthless determination. She controls two of Australia's most prominent vineyards. Her family has been sacrificed in her lust for power, no one more savagely than Tamara, the unwanted, unloved child of Eleanor's driving ambition. Tamara Vandelier—a cold manipulator or a woman whose scars run deep beneath her tough image? For Tamara, the final reckoning with her mother is long overdue. Now she has come back to the family's estate, determined that Eleanor should pay for what she has done to her. Tamara has embarked on a destructive course, and in the final, fatal clash of wills, no one is safe from the secrets within...
Author
Emma Darcy is the pseudonym created by the married writing team of Wendy and Frank Brennan. Their life journey has taken as many twists and turns as the characters in their stories, whose international popularity has resulted in over sixty-million book sales. With more than a hundred titles, Emma Darcy appeared regularly on the Waldenbooks bestseller lists in the U.S.A. and in the Nielson BookScan Top 100 chart in the U.K. Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere. As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people. Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.
