Texas

The first in Fern Michaels' bestselling Texas series, Texas Rich introduces us to passionately compelling Billie Ames. . . Young Billie Ames was naive but a real knockout when she met Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months she was pregnant and married to him. It was a marriage that brought Billie--and her mother, Agnes--across the country to Austin, to a 250,000-acre spread called Sunbridge, and into the world of the Texas rich. Billie works to acclimate to Texas and her new home at Sunbridge, her role as Moss' wife, and the challenges she faces from her social-climbing mother, her gruff and demanding father-in-law, and the events of the world around her. We see Billie grow stronger in heart, mind, and belief as her children are born, her marriage to Moss changes, and she comes into her own as a Coleman--and a woman in her own right.

As the world watched the mounting tensions that eventually led to the American Civil War, French novelist Gustave Aimard set his sights on an earlier conflict -- the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836. In this, the second volume of Aimard's series set during that tumultuous period, the grumblings of discontent and early guerrilla skirmishes blossom into an organized and deadly rebellion.

This bestselling series from Fern Michaels takes readers into the world of the Texas rich, and the heart of a family empire... Built before World War II by domineering patriarch Seth Coleman, Sunbridge, the magnificent Austin, Texas, empire, now belongs to Moss and Billie's daughter, Maggie. She's invited the whole family--and several hundred guests--to a Fourth of July barbecue in celebration of the renewed sense of family pride she's determined to forge. But as loved ones come together, they bring old resentments and new temptations destined to generate more than a little heat. And as Maggie hopes to be accepted as mistress of Sunbridge, she also struggles to be a good mother to her resentful son Cole and her broken hearted daughter, Sawyer. Then there is her sister, Susan, a renowned musician who arrives home for the most terrifying performance of her life. And in the midst of it all is Maggie's decision to divorce Cranston Tanner, and her love for another man--a love that could cost her everything...

Set in the heart of wealthy Texas, Fern Michaels's bestselling series takes us inside the privileged Coleman dynasty-a family that lives and loves with intense abandon, generation after generation. . . For Amelia Coleman Assante, the last surviving child of a legendary tycoon, it's a time of transition, for her family, and for her marriage. When Cary Assante swept into Amelia's lonely life, he was a younger man whose fierce passion wiped away the shadows of tragedy that haunted her. Together they built a billion-dollar dream, a city within a city. But now Cary's success, and the temptations that come with it, threaten their bond. Yet while Amelia finds herself in danger of losing him to another woman, she carries a damning secret of her own-with consequences that will reverberate across an empire. . .

From the seductive waters of Hawaii to the rustic splendor of Vermont, from the sprawling family ranch, Sunbridge, to the high-tech glamour of Japan, the Colemans have been driven apart by the passions and betrayals of a new generation. But now, as Billie Coleman Kingsley, their beloved matriarch, lays dying, she offers new hope to heal their rifts. Even as her own strength fails, the indomitable Billie instills courage and confidence in the future. And as the Colemans gather around her, preparing for their inevitable, shattering loss, they all must transform their lives.