Misfortune's Daughters

MISFORTUNE'S DAUGHTERS tells the multi-generational saga of the wealthy Stephanopolis family. Beginning in the Golden Era of Hollywood, the beautiful and talented actress Laura Marlowe meets the young, dashing, and rich shipping magnate Nicholas Stephanopolis. After a whirlwind courtship, the two marry and move to the private Stephanopolis Island in the south of Greece to live. Yet heartache and tragedy await them both and extend into the lives of their two very different, but willful and ambitious daughters, Venetia and Atlanta. One is a beautiful and favorite daughter bent on self-destruction; the other is a wallflower who buries herself in books and shies away from her privileged world. Yet both must confront the legacy and tragedy of the lives of their parents. Sweeping across almost sixty years in New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Greece, MISFORTUNE'S DAUGHTERS is a page-turning story that takes the reader into the most glamorous of places and lives, exposing secrets and desires as two young women try to break from their family shadow and become women in their own right.Collins, Joan is the author of 'Misfortune's Daughters ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780786890682 and ISBN 0786890681.