title: Times of Triumph
author: Allen, Charlotte Vale
description: Beautiful Leonie Benedict was young, alone, and desperately trying not to be afraid when she arrived in pre-World War I New York. Behind her was her shattering adulterous love affair with Gray Marlowe. Ahead, the birth of an illegitimate child and a future terrifyingly unknown. This is Leonie Benedict's story. The story of a woman fighting her way up the ladder of success in a man's world. A woman learning the ecstatic heights and brutal depths of passion. A woman bearing and raising children, watching them emerge into the adult world and move beyond all old limits in search of profit and pleasure, hungering for forbidden desires of the flesh. A woman braving the crudest tricks of fate and fortune, risking everything she had hoped for again and again. A woman unafraid to say yes to life...