Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon

Elizabeth Roffe's life is thrown off the rails when the news of her father's death is broken to her. She is devastated by the news but she soon realizes that she is the successor to his billion dollar pharmaceutical company, Roffe and Sons. Suddenly pushed into the affairs of the company and its nasty internal strifes, she finds herself incapable of handling it. She seeks solace and comfort in the company of Rhys Williams, who was her father's right hand man. The board, comprising of the extended family and Rhys, is fighting tooth and nail to make the company public. Every person on the board has his or her own interests to look after. In the face of massive pressure, she opposes the plans to go public and that makes her a target for assassination attempts and sabotage. Bloodline is the story of the evolution of Elizabeth from a shy and diffident girl to a lady who is confident enough to run a billion dollar enterprise.

About the Author

Sidney Sheldon was born in Chicago, Illinois. He has published eighteen novels which have sold nearly 300 million copies all over the world. Sheldon worked for nearly twenty years in the television industry before turning to writing. He won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1947 for the Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. In 2004, he published an autobiography The Other of Me.