num_pages: 426
description: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings seriesa sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a faade of privilege and prosperity while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation In Charlemont Kentucky the Bradford family is the crme de la crme of high societyjust like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder No one is above suspicionespecially the eldest Bradford son Edward. The bad blood between him and his father is known far and wide and he is aware that he could be named a suspect. As the investigation into the death intensifies he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottleas well as with his former horse trainers daughter. Meanwhile the familys financial future lies in the perfectly manicured hands of a business rival a woman who wants Edward all to herself. Everything has consequences; everybody has secrets. And few can be trusted. Then at the very brink of the familys demise someone thought lost to them forever returns to the fold. Maxwell Bradford has come home. But is he a savior...or the worst of all the sinners?
language: English
title: The Angels' Share
publisher: NAL