Treasures - Tapa dura

Connie, Eddie, and Lara Osborne, three siblings from Ohio, leave their provincial home behind following their mother's death and find love, wealth, and success in the world. By the author of Harvest. 175,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. Tour.

amily . . . the Osbornes--two sisters and a brother--united by family ties but split apart by different dreams.  Lara, the happy young wife, longs for the family that will make her life whole.  Connie, wild and lovely, is more like her brother Eddy--bright, ambitious, and ready to seize all that life has to offer.  A story of choices . . . .  Connie is looking for wealth--to make or to marry.  Lara, staying behind in a small Ohio town, finds everything she cherishes threatened by fate and by her own blind commitment.  And Eddy, as Wall Street's "wonder boy," can make millions . . . if he ruthlessly uses his family and friends.  A story of marriages . . . .  Lara's held together by devotion, Connie's shattered by infidelity and betrayal, and Eddy's rocked by shame and prison.  Torn by conflicting loyalties, they are a family caught in the tides of scandal . . . and swept toward a fate where dreams may en