For three generations the Tate women had carved out

empires, built dynasties and left in theh" wake a

reckless trail o f wick ed rogues and heartbroken 1o vers. ~

Yet there was something bizarre about there three

women named Mara. They ale united by a strange,

uncanny bond a secret legacy that goes beyond

blood and vow. The full power of this legao will be

visited on rite last of the Tares. a woman of dark

mystery, great wealth and burning passion. This Mara

becomes mistress to presidents, glittering celebrities

and captains of industry Blindingly beautiful scorch-

ingly sensuous, she is the most tempestuous of the Tates.

But all of her life Mara is haunted by her eerie heritage.

A.supernatural force that reaches for her front beyond

the grave leads her back through time to the lives of her

mother and grandmother and into the great unknown

trom the watery wreckage of the Titanic to the

bottomless maelstrom of the Bermuda Triangle. The

lives of these three Maras--their blazing passions and

secret sins--span an enth e century, taking the reader

on a daring and sensuous odyssey into the occult.