With a heart full of dreams, Sallie Coleman leaves Texas and heads west, determined to get as far away as she can from the squalor of her dirt-poor beginnings. With its shifting sands, smoky saloons and bingo palaces, Las Vegas seems like Paradise. A paradise that turns all her dreams into gold when an extraordinary twist of fate makes Sallie the most powerful businesswoman in Nevada.
Suddenly, she is rich. Rich enough to own a mansion on her own mountain. Rich enough to turn the primitive desert town into a thriving showplace. And independent enough to begin a search for Seth Coleman, her long-lost brother. But it is with Philip Thornton, the handsome Bostonian who helps transform Sallie into Vegas's most elegant first lady, that she finds her future. Philip gives her two sons, Simon and Ash. One will bring her a mother's greatest joy. One will break her heart.
Spanning over half a century, VEGAS RICH is the unforgettable story of Sallie Coleman and the Thornton dynasty ... of Fanny Logan, the small-time Pennsylvania beauty who finds her destiny in Las Vegas, where she creates a multimillion-dollar clothing empire ... and finds happiness and heartbreak as the wife of Ash Thornton--and the daughter Sallie never had. ... Ash Thornton, whose life's ambitions begin and end with Babylon, the magnificent casino that will be his most towering triumph-and his tragic downfall. Simon Thornton, whose search for meaning takes him from the battlefields of World War II to the trading rooms of Wall Street and back home to Nevada, where he discovers love at last with the wife of his fiercest rival.
