From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a sweeping work of historical fiction, a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwinedâand they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man.
The Presidentâs Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world...
Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitiousâand unfaithfulâman who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when sheâs offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life.
Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then sheâs introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the worldâs richest man and her fellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on all sides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life being turned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man...
Little by little, in this captivating biographical fiction, Mariaâs and Jackieâs lives begin to overlap, and they come closer and closer until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.
From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a sweeping work of historical fiction, a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwinedâand they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man.
The Presidentâs Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world...
Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitiousâand unfaithfulâman who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when sheâs offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life.
Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then sheâs introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the worldâs richest man and her fellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on all sides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life being turned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man...
Little by little, in this captivating biographical fiction, Mariaâs and Jackieâs lives begin to overlap, and they come closer and closer until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.