Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas (Paul Gill)(Paperback)

From the #1 bestselling author ofThe SecretWifecomes a story of love, passion, andtragedy as the lives ofJackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined-and they become the ultimaterivals, in love with the same man.The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalrythat shook the world...Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, andcontemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the publiceye with an overly ambitious--and unfaithful-man whocould hardly becoaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillbornchild wasbreaking her spirit.So when she's offered a holiday on the luxuriousyacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that willultimately change her life.Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career andwidely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And thenshe'sintroduced to Aristotle Onassis, the world's richest man and herfellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on allsides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life beingturned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man...Little bylittle, Maria's and Jackie's lives begin to overlap, and they come closer andcloser until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.
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