THROUGH THE YEARS

New Year’s eve 1899, impoverished midwife Maggie delivers the baby of Cordelia, a woman running from her privileged life and poised to become a famous diva, but haunted by her nightmarish past. The two women are strangers, but their lives will be connected and changed forever. Maggie will be drawn into Delia’s world of the aristocracy and find a passionate desire for the love of one man, but her deep and abiding love is for a child not her own.Delia is desperately trying to free herself from the bonds of the men who have controlled her life since she was a Hugo, Julian and Marcus, three brothers. She is convinced one loves her, one desires her and one, she fears, hates her. At the turn of the century in a time of change and uncertainty both women strive for independence, but through the years it will be their conflict with each other and later their friendship and shared purpose that will heal the past and shape their dreams of the future. From a poor immigrant inhabited tenement in New York to the ancient streets of New Orleans and the diverse people of the Louisiana bayous, to the burgeoning city of San Francisco and to Southern California as moving pictures are born, Delia survives a hurricane and a great earthquake. Ultimately she uncovers the secrets, lies and truth about the people in her life, learns the true identity of her benefactor, and which man really loves her.