As the Chicago police tighten their net, it will take all of Kate’s ingenuity to clear her name. But after Kate tangles with the darkly charismatic Mitchell Wyatt, she finds herself cast in a shadow of guilt and mistrust. Kate Donovan never dreamed that a chance romantic encounter on a tropical island paradise would tag her as a suspect in a high-society murder case. Now suspicion has turned shockingly toward William’s own half-brother, the rather distant and enigmatic Mitchell Wyatt. The family, the police, the media–all have tried in vain to discover the young man’s fate. The only thing for certain: Foul play was involved. But on the eve of wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt’s eightieth birthday, all the money in the world won’t bring back his missing grandson, William Wyatt. Such opulence means success and, surely, happiness. High atop a snow-covered hill, the stately old Wyatt mansion is perched like a crown, its stone spires pointing upward, its stained glass windows glowing like colorful jewels. Will they be able to believe in each other - and grasp the tender miracle that is before them? Read online As tensions build between them, bittersweet memories rise to the surface, leaving them suspicious, restless, and uncertain. Now, as the Bancroft firm is threatened by a hostile takeover, Meredith is forced to confront Matt. Now world leaders courted him, the media watched his every move, and he was ready to move in on the Bancroft empire.Ī cool, poised executive in her family's legendary department store chain, Meredith had once defied her father for the sexually magnetic, intense Matt Farrell - and their brief, ill-fated marriage was the disastrous outcome. A long way from the country club where, feeling like an outsider, he had dared to fall in love with a beautiful blonde named Meredith Bancroft, and known a once-in-a-lifetime passion and betrayal that still haunted his memory. Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana's steel mills.

A kingdom of dreams by judith mcnaught