Description

From dust jacket: Luxury and splendor on the high seas. Heartaches, lust, greed, passion and a great love seething beneath the lavish comfort and suave glamour of a large transatlantic liner.

Fay Farbre, lovable red-headed torch singer coveting wealth and ease well within her seeking grasp, only to find herself hopelessly enmeshed in a great genuine love. Felice Shawn Schuyler, hollow-eyed ex-Follies beauty clinging in sick desperation to unworthy, treacherous passion. Mattie Smith, spinster, seeking the great adventure. Diane Descarte, golden-haired wife-on-leave. Nan Kimberley, debutante, cradled in ease. Dyke, pitiful, timorous fugitive from justice. Ammos Duffrey, generous, ruthless Wall Street magnate. Ronny Schuyler, handsome, young, penniless. Angel Perdita, soft-tongued, double-crossing gigolo. Living, breathing, pulsating human beings whose lives interweave and influence each other to the point of high tragedy on this one brief crossing.

Some of these people you will condemn. Others you will pity. But none can fail to arouse your interest and sympathy. Marguerite Brener has written a sophisticated, exciting novel that involves the innermost emotions of her absorbing characters.

Notes

Great 30's jacket, awful book. Unpleasant characters, poorly motivated. Flags galore.

Tags

1930s, American, beautiful/handsome, f/m, heir/heiress, not recommended, ocean liner, poor, redemption, riches to rags, romance, secretary, singer, third-person

Flags

alcoholism/drug addiction or abuse, domestic violence, racism