Texas Sunrise

by Fern Michaels

Overview

As sizzling and sexy as its predecessors, Texas Sunrise shares the final chapter of the Coleman family, whose lifelong drama of heartbreak and triumph has captivated millions of readers.

Billie Coleman Kingsley, beloved matriarch of the clan and founder of a fabulously successful fashion empire, is dying. As her family gathers together in this time of heartbreak, the indomitable Billie offers new hope to heal the rifts that separate them. Even as her own strength fails, Billie instills courage, fortitude, and her conviction that life goes on after tragedy. From the seductive waters of Hawaii to the rustic splendor of Vermont, from the family’s sprawling Texas ranch, Sunbridge, to the exotic beauty and high-tech glamour of Japan, the Colemans have been driven apart by the passions and betrayals of a new generation. But now, as they deal with the shattering news of Billie’s illness, all the Colemans must transform their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780345365934
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/28/1994
Series:	Texas Series , #4
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	4.18(w) x 6.92(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

Fern Michaels is the author of more than fifty novels, including the Texas quartet—Texas Rich, Texas Heat, Texas Fury, and Texas Sunrise—as well as the Captive series of historical romances. Her most recent bestsellers are Plain Jane and her new Kentucky series. A resident of New Jersey for many years, she now lives in a historic home near Charleston, South Carolina.

Hometown:

Summerville, South Carolina

Place of Birth:

Hastings, Pennsylvania

Education:

High School

Editorial Reviews

A SEQUEL WITHOUT EQUAL . . . A stunning and emotional conclusion to the story of a family that readers have come to care for and love.”
—Los Angeles Daily News

From the Publisher

The final installment (after Texas Fury ) in Michaels's series about the Coleman clan and its aeronautics and fashion empires opens with family matriarch Billie Coleman Kingsley receiving bad medical news. Meanwhile, Billie's daughter Maggie is ruining her marriage with her total devotion to her husband; another daughter, embittered and weak Susan, searches desperately for love; Maggie's son, Cole, questions his ability to lead his father-in-law's business, while his sister Sawyer forces him to confront the ghosts that haunt him. Through such family crises as death, divorce, birth and tragic accidents, staged in locales ranging from Texas to Japan to Hawaii, the family members struggle to cope with Billie's impending death and to understand her lessons about family, power and love. Readers who are new to the series may have trouble understanding how the characters are linked and why they act as they do, but already indoctrinated fans will find that Michaels provides a satisfying, though somewhat perfunctory, sense of closure. ( Feb. )

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Fans of "Texas Rich", "Texas Fury", and "Texas Heat" will be absorbed in Michaels' newest novel, in which she reveals the news that Billie Coleman Kingsley is dying. Billie is the matriarch who founded an internationally famous fabric design company, Billie Ltd., and the dynasty whose loves and tragedies fill these Texas novels. The family tree stretches from Japan to England, with stops in Hawaii, Vermont, Minnesota, and, of course, Texas. Michaels' linkage of the Coleman kin in Japan and the U.S. presents an interesting politico-economic twist to the tale. It will take a reader new to this series a while to sort out the convoluted Coleman/Hasegawa families, but that is part of the fun in this lively, soap-opera fare.

Denise Perry Donavin