PENNY VINCENZI

An irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion-first in the Spoils of Time trilogy from the bestselling author. Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong-willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way. She moves through life making difficult and often dangerous decisions that affect herself and others-her husband, Oliver, and their children; the destitute Sylvia Miller, whose life is transformed...

Tom and Octavia Fleming glitter among the chattering classes of London in the late 1990's. Tom, a brilliant political strategist, and Octavia, an equally talented charity consultant, appear to have it all-good looks, money, success, and three pretty children-everything but precious time together. When Octavia realizes that Tom is having an affair, she plots her revenge against her husband. But nothing prepares Octavia for the identity of Tom's mistress,...

A saga set throughout the latter half of the 20th century traces a mega-wealthy family's efforts to orchestrate respective agendas from their Hamptons summer homes and English countryside manor, while a brother and two sisters discover that they all have different fathers.

1950s, London. Tom Knelston is charismatic, charming, with a passion for politics and reform. He is a man with ambition-- and someone to watch. His wife Alice, a former nurse, shares his ideals; they are the perfect match. When Tom meets an old childhood acquaintance, the unhappily married Diana Southcott, a fashion model, she is everything Tom fights against. Flirting with danger, they embark on an affair that is potentially damaging to both. And...

"On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she'll ever see him again;...

Set during the boom-and-bust years of the 1980s, follow the lives of a group of people drawn together by their mutual monetary woes when the great financial institution Lloyd's undergoes a devastating downturn.

Clio, Jocasta, and Martha, three college students who backpack through Thailand on a holiday. Upon return to England one of them gives birth and abandons the baby at Heathrow Airport. Sixteen years later the child searches for her mother.

Meeting by chance in 1985, three young women spend time together in Thailand before going their separate ways and are reunited many years later, unaware that the daughter abandoned at birth by one of them is now searching for her birth mother.