Never Enough, a View Park Novel

May 14, 2007
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n Winters's entertaining latest View Park novel, the Chase family plunges to new lows of deviousness. Patriarch Steven Chase, CEO of an ever-expanding upscale beauty chain, wishes to keep his grown sons on a tight leash and within the family company. However, Kimberly, wife of eldest son Michael, is intent on bringing down her mother-in-law, and younger son Carter goes to dangerous lengths to hide a dark secret from his fiancée. Add to the mix Steven's two grown daughters: Leigh, a do-gooder doctor whose idealism frustrates her mother, and Haley, a spoiled club kid who gets involved with a dangerous club owner, and trouble is never far away. As the plots converge, Steven stands to lose his mini-empire and family. Though the characters function as embodiments of their faults, the pacing is fast and the drama unrelenting.

June 1, 2007
Chase Beauty, the Chase familys billion-dollar line of salons and products, enables them to live in style in the weatlhy African American Los Angeles suburb of View Park. Steven and Janet are the driving force behind the business, and they have four children. Carter, a lawyer, becomes engaged to Avery, a salon owner whose business was absorbed by Chase Beauty. Michael works with and strives for his fathers approval, while his wife, Kimberly, the mother of their two children, has quite a checkered past. Leigh is a doctor who works in clinics around the world but is not speaking to her mother. And Haley is the wild child currently between scandals. Winters novel follows the family through drug addiction, physical abuse, and power plays. Lies and deception are the norm in this household, where theres enough high drama to rival Dallas or Dynasty, complete with cat fights. Winters has written a real page-turner.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)