Publisher's Synopsis
Age fourteen, consumed with ambition, John Crossworth ran away from home. Years later he returns, as the prosperous owner of the local coal mine. But his new wife -- the brilliant Sarah -- is viewed as an outsider and rejected by the Crossworth family and the miners.
Expanding his empire, Crossworth turns from coal to cotton, founding a business dynasty which dominates the Lancashire town. But as time passes the co-inheritors of the fortune, the Crossworth twins, become enemies, and the dream that their father made reality is threatened by greed, envy and revenge.
