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Rich Again [Paperback]

Anna Maxted (Author)
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December 22, 2009

Walk-in closet full of designer everything? Check. Private Caribbean island? Check. Connection to the aristocracy?  Working on it.  Cunning, malicious stalker?  Double check.

Welcome to the world of the Kents, a charismatic, ambitious, and fabulously wealthy English family with two sisters – one as strong and sparkling as the other is delicate and wounded – who must somehow put their differences aside to keep an unknown enemy from bringing them down.  Wild and beautiful Emily Kent has had the world laid at her feet by her ruthless mother and billionaire father – but it's not enough.  Gifted with her mother's to-die-for looks, her father's hard-scrabble business sense, and both of her parents' lust for control, Emily is determined to make her own luck by seducing the only man she’s ever wanted, a man who can make her dreams of attaining the heights of old-money English society come true.  By contrast, Emily's step-sister, Claudia, is a fragile soul—her mother died when she was five, leaving her to the unkind reign of step-mother Innocence. In an uncharacteristic burst of rebellion, Claudia trades her gilded lifestyle for an ordinary flat and daytime job where she meets the man of her dreams… or so she imagines. 

But, Emily and Claudia are caught up in a desperate situation that may be beyond their control. As for their father, disgraced tycoon Jack Kent, and his wife Innocence, they are too obsessed with the fight for supremacy over their vast empire to see that a mighty and sinister opponent is plotting to ruin them all. 


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Popular Brit Maxted (Running in Heels) rewrites Cinderella for a meaner, more cynical age in a biting saga of a filthy-rich family brought to rack and ruin by a soulless psycho intent on settling an old score. Part social commentary, part thriller, Maxted's novel charts the complicated history of rags-to-riches-times-two Jack Kent, a hotel baron who loses a first wife to an early death, watches an adopted daughter nearly marry her own father, stands by as a wastrel biological daughter squanders her life and love, and is saved by a bitchy and deliciously vindictive second wife. It's a rip-roaring tale with a creepy villain bent on wrecking the family: I have spent all of my life thinking, plotting, imagining brilliant, twisted ways to make all of you suffer the same unimaginable hell that I did, he seethes, and the annoying thing is, you all have the presumption to think it coincidence! Though the book could lose a good hundred pages and the hopscotching time line can be confusing, when Maxted finds her groove, the flow is smart, crisp and riveting. (Jan.)
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The author of Getting Over It (2000) and A Tale of Two Sisters (2006) offers up an outlandish story of love and revenge not unlike the sudsers penned by Barbara Taylor Bradford or Jackie Collins. Former billionaire Jack Kent is too busy stewing over the theft of his fortune and business by his estranged second wife, Innocence, to pay attention to either of his daughters. The eldest, Claudia, who was adopted by Jack and his first wife, is trying to distance herself from her family by getting a job as a journalist and entering into a relationship with her handsome older boss. Her younger half-sister, Emily, has set her sights on a wealthy heir and seduced him––with unintended consequences. Unbeknownst to any of them, the family is being targeted by the sociopathic Nathan, who has a tenuous connection to them. With infidelity, incest, and murder in the mix, Rich Again may not be as introspective and thoughtful as Maxted’s previous works, but readers will find themselves engrossed in the torrid tale. --Kristine Huntley

Product Details

  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1 edition (December 22, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312570287
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312570286
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.6 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #933,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Murder, Sex, laughs, Celebrity Cameos, a little something for everyone, December 28, 2009
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If I hadn't read it on the cover I never would have known this was a book by Anna Maxted. I have enjoyed her other books, and pre-ordered this one thinking that was what I was getting. As I read this book I was happily surprised by this departure from her regular writing.

If you can get past the sexual content (necessary for story development) of book one (the book is divided up into 5 books), you will be rewarded with a well written story that makes the melodrama of Dallas and Melrose Place seem tame. Maxted did a wonderful job of creating characters that you love, hate, and love to hate. Even though Maxted departed slightly from her past books the thing that remains the same is her observations on human relationships and showing that love is not always black and white. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes a bit of humor, murder, sex, and pop culture in their books.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars ABSURD YET CAPTIVATING, May 31, 2010
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The cover of this book is very misleading--this is no light chic lit novel. Definitely about dysfunctional/rich people with sex, drugs, murder and deception--almost like an early Jackie Collins's novel! I had a bit of trouble with the time frames with characters and the years, and perhaps this was written this way to emphasize that "the past will come to haunt/hurt you"?? It's a bit absurd yet a captivating book.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars The worst thing I've read in a long time, April 23, 2010
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I read the reviews and noticed that they were unfavorable, but I thought those reviewers might just be anti- chick-lit escapist fluff and were judging it as though it's supposed to be literature. I liked one of her other books, so I figured they were wrong. They're right: it's terrible.

You know those soap operas where someone's wife dies in a tragic accident that may not be an accident, and his children become wastrels or institutionalized, and someone marries his sister who was given up for adoption years ago without she's related, and there's a horrible second wife who steals his business out from under him and seemingly kills the step-child (who really lives and goes on to seek revenge), and someone is secretly married, and the evil twin turns out to be impersonating him? Oh, and there's a psychopath stalking them all? And you think, "What a far-fetched, absurd, forced story. Could they think of another ridiculous plot point to trot out? Who writes this?" Apparently Anna Maxted could, since that's basically this book. For a while I thought it was so over the top that it was almost poking fun at itself, but I think it was serious. Cliched, undeveloped, stupid characters. Depressing, contrived plot that isn't redeemed with any humor. Dragging pacing, which is pretty amazing when you pack it this full of silly, over the top events. I finally abandoned it, after having almost done so several previous times.
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