Emmet Richard Folsby: Founder of a mighty publishing empire, a patriarch to be admired - with one unspeakable exception...Constance Louise Folsby: Emmet's wife, and cofounder of the empire, now an invalid dying by degrees, resolutely blind to the moral missteps of those she cares for...Barbara Ann Folsby: The wildcat of a daughter, a fiercely ambitious business-woman, inexorably lured to love at its most forbidden... Brett Sherwood Folsby: The dashing play-boy son, his sister's most bitter antagonist, and a man with sexual secrets of his own... Through two decades, the Folsbys embrace their checkered destinies as Barbara and Brett battle for future control of the empire - never guessing that a trusted family friend with a hidden agenda is quietly manipulating them all...