Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game

Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game
Sidney Sheldon

Tilly Bagshawe

The spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon’s MASTER OF THE GAME, one of the most glamorous and suspenseful tales ever told…It began with Jamie MacGregor, stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter, the powerful Kate Blackwell, who grew her father’s company into a world wide conglomerate. Now the story passes to the next generation.Spanning the decades and picking up exactly where Sidney Sheldon’s bestselling Master of the Game finished, Mistress of the Game follows the Blackwell family as they love, lose, scheme and murder through the 80s up until the present day.Heart–stopping and glamorous, tense and provocative, Mistress of the Game is the sequel that Sheldon fans have been waiting for…

Sidney Sheldon’s

After the Darkness

TILLY BAGSHAWE

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For Alexandra Sheldon,with love and thanks.

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