The master stroke

Elizabeth Gage, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller A Glimpse of Stocking takes us behind the gilded screen of international business, where power and passion merge...where a beautiful, gifted woman and a merciless magnate clash, unleashing a tidal wave of greed, obsession and lust....

Francie Bollinger had a spectacular vision--and a body to match. But when Anton Magnus stole her brilliant ideas for Magnus Industries' profit, and betrayed her trust in the cruelest way, he created in Francie a formidable foe and a new competitor. In love with Magnus's son Jack, the dashing heir-apparent who had tutored Francie in the perilous arts of family and corporate politics, Francie would find a new champion to help her as she sought out Magnus Industries' weaknesses...and conceived an irresistible revenge

The game is dangerous, the stakes dazzling, the players desperate. Breathtaking in its strategies, provocative in its wild sensuality, utterly involving in its cast of characters, THE MASTER STROKE will capture you in its seductive, shocking spell....