Description
At last their strange and unforgettable story is revealed, an epic of romance and creation rooted in the American soil and a fortune built on the rails of a vast empire.
Begin the saga with ENOCH KINGSTON -- a brawny, daring Western adventurer on a relentless climb toward wealth and power ... a man whose burning ambitions matched his consuming passion for two women: MAUDE ALVAREZ, aristocratic daughter of a landed Spanish family, and BROOK DE LEON, a proud black woman whose strength and spirit equalled his own.
Follow the intertwined lives of this magnificent family across three generations and a turbulent century of sacrifice and greed, deeply felt love and unbounded lust, incomparable wealth and all-too-human frailty ... and discover, in its full fury and emotional sweep, the thunderous heritage of THE KINGSTON FORTUNE.