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What would you do if your father offered you in marriage to a man you'd only just met? This is the outrageous problem facing Gloria and Cluny, the daughters of Leo del Marco, a grocery store tycoon. The year is 1969. Leo doesn't have a son to inheri the business. After a recent battle with cancer, he urgently needs to find a suitable heir to lead his business. A traditional man withunyilding views on gender roles, he doesn't believe a woman can lead a large and thriving business. But he thinks Christian Frederickson, a rising star in his accounts department, can do the job. There's one stipulation - Christian must marry into the family. Leo has three attractive daughters: Gloria is dutiful and obedient, putting her father first in all things. After her mother died 16 years ago, she raised her sisters and continues to run the household. At 31, she has never been tempted to put any man ahead of her father - until she meets Nathaniel, a gifted mathematician. Sofia is stalled at an early stage of development. Leo has decreed that she will never marry. But Sofia wants to live a normal life with her boyfriend Bobby. Cluny is Leo's youngest daughter, dazzlingly sexy, her father's favorite and a warrior queen. Ruthlessly determined to grasp the money and power, Christian must decide which one is the pot of gold - compliant, conventional Gloria or mutinous Cluny. He knows Gloria is the more suitable wife. But from the moment he first saw her, he was vitally attracted to Cluny. Cluny does all she can to stop the marriage scheme. But as the adversaries fight for dominance, Cluny fears that the unscrupulous Christian will find out the secret she's been hiding from her father ... More than a retro romance, this is a family drama about an autocratic father's ruthlessness, and ambition's dangerous influence.

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AMAZON REVIEWERS SAY: Sydney Smith is an author who has good stories and is skilled at telling them, a combination that's not easy to come by in today's oversaturated market for books. So many exciting layers to this story... I was entranced, and couldn't put the book down until all was resolved. This book was so interesting! I started reading it and it got really good almost immediately and never wavered. There's a lot of good things to be said about this story. I loved the character build and how each sister is different. There's a lot of drama and I was breaking my head trying to decide which would be the one he would choose. I love when books are mysterious that way. Anyway, I'm gonna go recommend my friends to read this now. This little story rang my bell.

AMAZON REVIEWERS SAY: Sydney Smith is an author who has good stories and is skilled at telling them, a combination that's not easy to come by in today's oversaturated market for books. So many exciting layers to this story... I was entranced, and couldn't put the book down until all was resolved. This book was so interesting! I started reading it and it got really good almost immediately and never wavered. There's a lot of good things to be said about this story. I loved the character build and how each sister is different. There's a lot of drama and I was breaking my head trying to decide which would be the one he would choose. I love when books are mysterious that way. Anyway, I'm gonna go recommend my friends to read this now. This little story rang my bell.

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Sydney Smith has been obsessed with fiction since childhood. Leo's Daughters came out of her girlhood love of fairy tales and her puzzlement over the king's daughter, who was usually the hero's reward for killing the dragon or ridding the land of some plague or terrible enchantment. She used to wonder what the king's daughter felt about being handed over like that, especially as she never believed the story's careless assertion that the girl in question was happy to marry this fortune-hunting stranger.

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