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The Prodigal Daughter

  • 464 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 1973
  • 61 editions

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1 About this book

With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more: to be the first female president. His Future Is Wealth. Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world―with the woman he loves.

But Their Past Holds a Secret… With Florentyna’s ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception reaches out from the past―a blood feud between two generations that threatens to destroy everything Florentyna and Richard have fought to achieve.

  • Children of immigrants
  • Political
  • Politicians
  • Political fiction
  • Politique
  • Chicago (ill.)
  • Fathers and daughters
  • Hotelkeepers

2 About Jeffrey Archer

1940–2026

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (15 April 1940 – 5 October 2026) was an English novelist and politician. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth (Lincolnshire) from 1969 to 1974, but did not seek re-election after almost going bankrupt. Archer revived his fortunes as a novelist with his third novel Kane and Abel (1979).

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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