Family Betrayal (36 page)

SILK
Penny Jordan

Dangerous liaisons …
Skeletons in closets …
A scandalous web of lies and deceit …
The Pickfords are just your average family.

Cheshire, the 1920s, a time of great glamour and decadence, high living and loose morality, a time where anything goes – and does.

Amber Vrontsky is the heiress to the Pickford dynasty, presided over by the formidable Blanche.

Obsessed with social climbing, Blanche wants nothing more for her granddaughter than a titled husband – something which, despite her immense wealth, she failed to secure.

But Amber is a free spirit, intent on forging her own artistic career with the silk she loves so much. Unable to disobey Blanche, however, she moves to society London to become a debutante – and enters a world of illicit affairs, drug-taking, gambling, lavender marriages ….

From the lavish decadence of society London to the opium dens of the Far East, the chic boutiques of Paris to the Nazi-controlled streets of Berlin,
Silk
spans the depravity and the glamour of this tumultuous time.

Spoil yourself with this dazzling, decadent treat by international multi-million-copy selling Penny Jordan – the ultimate guilty pleasure for fans of Danielle Steel and Penny Vincenzi.

ISBN: 978-1-84756-073-5

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins
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2008

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