Hers the Kingdom
A sweeping tale of one strong-willed woman’s passionate struggle to hold to her cherished land and the men she loves, from bestselling author Shirley Streshinsky.
When beautiful young Willa Reade first saw the wild California coast called the Malibu, she knew she had come home. It was here, with her handsome aristocratic husband, Owen, and her crippled sister Lena, that Willa would build her empire. Through the boom days of the railroads, from the dance halls of San Francisco, to the revolutionary fires of China, through the bitter losses of war and the terrible secrets of a forbidden love, Willa would fight. For pride, for passion, for her children and her men . . . for the vast cherished acres of the Malibu, her kingdom, her home, her destiny.
Book details
- Author
- Shirley Streshinsky
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 708
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Historical
Fiction › Romance › Historical - Topics
- historical fiction · historical romance · California · Malibu · forbidden love · family saga · strong-willed heroine · land and legacy
- ISBN-13
- 9781618580214 (Paperback)9781630263546 (Hardcover)
About the author
SHIRLEY STRESHINSKY was a novelist, biographer, and journalist who authored three works of nonfiction and four historical novels, including A Time Between, Gift of the Golden Mountain and Hers the Kingdom. Her nonfiction includes An Atomic Love Story: The Extraordinary Women in Robert Oppenheimer’s Life, co-authored with Patricia Klaus, and Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness.
Streshinsky received the Society of Magazine Writers' Award for Excellence and the National Council for the Advancement of Education Writing award. Her journalism appeared in Glamour, American Heritage, AARP The Magazine and The American Scholar.
A graduate of the University of Illinois, Streshinsky was married to photojournalist Ted Streshinsky and resided in Kensington, California.
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