10 oz.; 405 pages; Signet PB '79 1st Signet PB Printing Good++ light reading wear/aging slight spine lean nice clean/tight condition. A man's passion clashes with a woman's pride in this enthralling American family saga. Kingsley Merrick-A vigorous, driven man who, sought to erase the shame of his family's disgrace, and who hungered to possess the one woman whose passion he would do anything to arouse. Julia Merrick-A beauty who played a game of cold-blooded calculation to reach the exclusive upper circles of Boston's Beacon Hill society, but flirted with scandal and ruin when her own dangerous desires flamed out of control.