Vanessa — Ann Pinchot

Vanessa Oxford--a remarkable child even at fourteen, beautiful, talented, and with a sense of destiny, no matter the cost to herself or her loved ones...

Cassandra "Cassie" Oxford--sister of Vanessa, a porcelain child, an evanescent adult; a child-woman to be adored, but never trusted...

Joshua Fodor--professionally a brilliant filmmaker renowned for his pioneering epics, but personally a tortured, driven man, a self-willed engine of achievement and destruction...the man who created and was the great love of the greatest star of her era--Vanessa Oxford...and the man who betrayed her at the same time that her gave her more of himself than he'd ever believed possible...