There Was a Time — Taylor Caldwell

AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL

Two beautiful women wanted Frank Clair -- the handsome, talented, sensitive artist aflame with an adventurer's passion for life, and with a burning lust for money, fame, and women...

One would give him all she had -- a voluptuous blonde beauty forced by poverty into prostitution. It was she who first took this twisted, angry young man and taught him his earliest, soul-shattering lessons in tenderness and passion...

And one would take all he had to give -- a ravishing, highborn, dark-haired vixen who taunted the young writer for his crude, urgent longings and yet spurred him on to incredible heights of literary achievement and fame...