The Challenge and the Glory

Newport, Rhode Island--city of old money, magnificent mansions, endless shorelines, and a dream that drives the hearts of all: the quest for the America's Cup. Sweeping from the 1890s to the 1980s, this stunning novel reveals the epic struggles and scandalous desires of the men and women through generations who have staked their lives, their loves, and their fortunes on the glittering prize.

TESS MORAN--A beautiful Irish housemaid swept into a world of wealth by a mystery man who will teach her passion-and
break her heart...

AMANDA FAIN--The tempestuous sculptress with a taste for bootleg liquor and a soft heart for revolutionaries who fell in love with a straitlaced Englishman...

LAURA ANDERSSON--The Minnesota farmgirl who answered the siren call of the sea, then risked everything she loved on a schooner sailing south...

ALAN SETON--Dashing skipper of a great yacht, obsessed with winning the Cup--but endangered by his desire for three women who have the power to betray him...