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Just Rewards

Harte Family Saga Series, Book 6

#6 in series

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Wait time: About 2 weeks

From New York Times blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the astonishing final episode of the Harte family saga.
Just Rewards is the dramatic conclusion of the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte's great granddaughters. In this sweeping novel, the Harte women find themselves in the midst of weddings and intrigue. Linnet O'Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman-of-substance as she battles to modernize the family business. Returning from her honeymoon full of fresh ideas for bringing the Harte empire into the new century, Linnet locks horns with her mother, Paula, in a battle about the future. But when Paula falls ill, Linnet finds herself alone at the helm, just as her great-grandmother once was.
Evan Hughes, Linnet's American cousin, is pregnant and planning her small family wedding. Life seems good until a harsh confrontation with her adopted sister puts Evan in the hospital. Tessa Fairley, Linnet's sister, is ready to start a new life after an acrimonious divorce, which might include rivaling Linnet for the top spot in the Harte business.
In the midst of planning her own glamorous summer wedding in Ireland, India Standish is thrown off balance when her fiancé's daughter Atlanta comes to live with them—closely followed by his unstable ex-girlfriend, intent on trouble. However, it is Evan's sister Angharad who makes the most ripples within the family, trying to infiltrate the quartet of young women and latching on to Jonathan Ainsley, the deadly enemy of the Hartes, endangering every family member in the process.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      The saga of the Harte family began with A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE, the compelling story of Emma Harte's rise from poverty and illegitimacy to found England's finest department store. This story, ostensibly about Emma Harte's great-grandchildren, is a disappointment. Terry Donnelly does a credible job portraying the various British aristocrats. But the characters themselves are not likable, and the plot is bogged down in detail and in trying to tie the current generation to the past. Further, the characters' adulation of a great-grandmother long dead seems unhealthy to this listener. This is one series that should have stopped a generation or two ago. A.C.P. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 28, 2005
      Can this be, as advertised, the final episode in the Harte family saga? A Woman of Substance
      (1979), the story of Emma Harte's triumph over poverty and illegitimacy to found England's greatest department store, and its four sequels were huge bestsellers. Now Emma's great-granddaughter, Linnet O'Neill, must defend the empire and family against evil uncle Jonathan Ainsley. But words such as "granddaughter" and "uncle" don't do justice to the complexities. It takes four and a half pages of front matter to enumerate the Harte, Kallinski and O'Neill clans whose intertwining lives drive the saga. Emma's descendants offer a helping hand to new in-laws—and the reader—by uttering sentences such as these: "Through his great-grandfather, Winston the First, Emma is
      Gideon's great-great-aunt. But she is also Gideon's great-grandmother, because Emma was my
      grandmother." Weddings and funerals keep the local caterer busy and offer crescendos of activity, if scant emotion. Although Ainsley's malevolence hovers behind the story and leads to near disasters, there's never a doubt that the strong women will triumph—though not without struggle. Series devotees will take heart at the ending, which hints that Ainsley's evil will survive his death and the struggles will continue offstage even if Bradford lays down her golden pen.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Linnet O'Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, continues the family saga when she returns from her honeymoon filled with tantalizing ideas to renovate the family business. The large cast of characters that make up the fourth generation of Harte women is difficult to follow, but name cues, such as "great aunt" and "great-great-great-grandfather," help. Narrator Kate Burton is a solid fit for these English and North American characters, who have a variety of accents. She captures the tension within the family and excels at portraying wicked Angharad, an adopted sister with a threatening manner and condescending voice. For those who follow the Harte stories, this won't disappoint. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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