Pandora's box

the long version

Women, like money, were part of the Lancaster legacy. And Haydon Lancaster was heir to the throne, a man bred for the White House, born to succeed. To Laura, brilliant designer and photographer, he was forbidden pleasure, consuming passion, secret shame. But only her prophetic camera would capture the devastating truth - the soul of a man haunted by a love he could not reveal. To titian-haired, emerald-eyed Tess, who blazed a trail of sexual conquest and violence up to the pinnacle of power in New York and Washington, Hal Lancaster was the ultimate challenge, worthy of a world-class adventuress whose seductive brilliance no man could resist. She wanted a wedding ring and nothing would stop her...until a picture from the past unleashed the demons of obsession and revenge...