When beautiful young Willa Reade first saw the wild California coast
called the Malibu, she knew she had come home. It was here, with her
handsome aristocratic husband, Owen, and her crippled sister Lena, that
Willa would build her empire, an empire that would grow to shelter the
generations of a mighty California dynasty.
Through the boom days of the railroads, from the dance halls of San
Francisco, to the revolutionary fires of China, through the bitter
losses of war and the terrible secrets of a forbidden love, Willa would
fight. For pride, for passion, for her children and her men . . . for
the vast cherished acres of the Malibu, her kingdom, her home, her
destiny.