Paloverde
3 journalers for this copy...
"September noon, 1884. As the bells of the old Plaza church toll, no breeze stirs and the sun blazes down on the little California town of Los Angeles. Amelie Deane, pale, proud, and barely fifteen, watches her father's body lowered into the ground as a hostile crowd looks on.
"...It is Amelie's story, a compelling love story of an intelligent, sensitive, and supremely passionate young girl. Her uncompromising code of honor leads her to choices that will reverberate for generations.
"Paloverde is also a tale of two brothers whose fierce love for the same woman almost destroys them both. There is Bud Van Vliet, ambitious, vital, determined to build a vast business empire, and 3Vee, inventive, introspective, forever lost in the shadow of his older brother's achievements.
"Paloverde is a chronicle of the power of the railroads, the discovery of oil in Los Angeles, the emergence of the motion-picture industry, and the coming of aviation - the baring of ruthless ambitions, of huge fortunes won and lost amid the growing pains of a unique corner of America.
"And finally it is a story of the next generation of Van Vliets, of Tess and Kingdon, and of the dangerous love that grows between the shy, beautiful heiress and the war-embittered young aviator.
"As the two generations are inextricably drawn together, the great ancestral home of Paloverde - that place of disastrous dreams and forbidden crossings of blood lines - towers over all."
received as part of the under 100 bookbox, I choose this one.
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