Family Fortunes is an intimate explora-

tion of America s elite, the envied few

who live on vast estates, travel on their

own private planes, play by their own

rules. They exist in a splendid world,

protected from everything--everything,

that is, except heartbreak, passion, and

scandal.

Lawrence Kendall is the "robber

baron" who shocks society with his

staggering acquisition of wealth and his

overwhehning desire fur young Eliza-

beth Stuart. Their daughter Caroline will

shock the world even more when she

seeks freedom and fame the hard way

on her own. But fame and fortnne are

nothing eoinpared to the torment she

faces in her love for the Pulitzer Prize-

winning reporter she tnay never see

again.

Gall Halloran was the daughter of

servants in the Kendall household. Now

she is the toast of Broadway and Holly-

wood. But extraordinary stardom cannot

avert the consequences of her secret love

affair with a high-level politician--an

affair that changes her fate, and the fate

of the nation, forever.

Throughout their glainorous, tumul-