There's also a good deal of corporate takeover talk (nothing strenuous), fancy clothes, food, and digs. Will they never blurt out their separate versions of what happened 11 years before? Yes, but as romance-readers know, that takes time-here filled with stony silences, the biting of lips, and awesome lapses into Love. There's a nasty surprise about the long-ago divorce, and Matt makes some surprising demands. Eleven years later, Matt, having risen to heights at which he's interviewed by Barbara Walters and ``emanates raw, harsh power,'' and Meredith, still held from power by Dad, clash. But, alas, Meredith, back with furious Daddy, suffered a miscarriage.then waited in vain for Matt-who believed she'd had an abortion and who wanted a divorce.
Then entered Matt Farrell, a lowly mechanic from rural Indiana: ``His features looked as if they had been chiselled out of rough granite.'' Meredith (with ``a nose that sculptors would envy'') was a mere pebble of fate, and there followed a volcanic coupling, a pregnancy, and marriage. Meredith Bancroft, only offspring of the ruthless president of Bancroft & Co., had pushed romance aside-all she wanted at 18 was to fill her father's male-chauvinist trotter-prints to head Bancroft.
Between the first pash and the final nuptial flight, there're pages and pages of buzz about business and betrayals. A hard-cover debut from McNaught (sudsers like Almost Heaven and Kingdom of Dreams) links-in a contentious, sizzling-sheets romance-a Chicago department-store heiress/exec and a self-made corporate king.
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