LOVE AND MONEY

Rich girl. Poor girl.

Sisters—and strangers.

Enemies—and rivals.

Two women in love with the same man.

Beautiful Park Avenue heiress, Deedee Dahlen, and Lana Bantry, abused child from the wrong side of the tracks, live in different worlds. They share a father but not an inheritance, a lover but not a commitment—and they do not know of each other's existence.

Until murder—and Slash Steiner, the mysterious man with the Midas touch—bring the two women, sisters and strangers, enemies and rivals, face to face in a searing confrontation.

By Ruth Harris, million-copy New York Times bestseller and Romantic Times award winner for "best contemporary,” LOVE AND MONEY is the riveting story of forbidden passion, dark desire and a deadly secret.

LOVE AND MONEY was originally published in hard cover by Random House.

“A SPECTACULAR, RICHLY PLOTTED NOVEL. Racing to a shocking climax, this glittering novel is first-class entertainment, a story of love and money, and how both are made, lost, and found again.” —NY Times

“An ideal book! Ruth Harris has done a miraculous job of entwining the lives of two women in a totally believable and fascinating way. A page-turner. Plausible and entertaining, Love And Money reads fast and the time frames ring true. Harris doesn’t miss a trick, her characters are often shaped by circumstances…and her characters change, as do the years. Ruth Harris is a talented writer who has come up with a novel so entertaining and interesting you won’t have to hide if someone asks you what you’re reading.” —West Coast Review of Books

“FAST-PACED, SUPERIOR FICTION WITH A ZINGING SENSE OF STYLE. A skillfully written, highly commercial 'page-turner' Love And Money is also a series of carefully drawn character studies, insightful psychological portraits of people driven by the need for love, the hunger for money and the fear of death. With a narrative style that is crisply precise and descriptive, an unerring ear for dialogue and an overall tone that is strongly reminiscent of Susan Isaacs, Harris has written a terrifically satisfying ‘good read.’” —Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel

“In this entertaining story, Ruth Harris portrays characters who try to assuage their emotional pain by amassing wealth. When Russell Dahlen’s daughter Deedee is born, his mistress simultaneously gives birth to his illegitimate child, Lana. Years later, Deedee, a reigning socialite gains celebrity. As for embittered Lana, she grows up abused, deprived and chillingly determined to achieve the affluence and respectability required to destroy both Russell and Deedee. Harris will keep her fans engrossed as she accentuates the riskiness and unpredictability of lives obsessed with money, setting them against a backdrop of dizzying social change.” —Publisher’s Weekly

“A powerful contemporary novel of passions, jealousies and secrets. Love and money. Ultimately they seemed to be all anyone really understood.” —Michael Joseph

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