Portrait in Passion
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN'S STORM-WRACKED ODYSSEY IN AN AGE OF BREATHTAKING OPULENCE

Lovely young Kate Callahan was innocent of the harsh realities of existence when her swashbuckling robber-baron father died and left her stripped of the protection of wealth. Painfully, Kate had to learn the facts of life and love in a New York where every decent door was closed to her, and houses of ill-fame were all too open...in a bohemian Paris ablaze with art and amour, genius and madness...in a Victorian world where a woman had to break every rule to make her way...and in a labyrinth of passion where a ruthless, superbly sensual tycoon and a handsome demonically driven painter both laid claim to Kate's body and tore her heart in two...