Julie and Anna Martindale have both married artists, but they embark on a
reckless spiral of deceit, rivalry, and betrayal that ends on a fateful voyage
to New York, on the unsinkable "Titanic"
Handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish marries Julie after a whirlwind
seduction, and when his ambitious schemes begin to pay off, Julie is more than
happy to be the wife of an up-and-coming painter and the mother of his children.
Anna's husband, Howard Buskin, is rich, moody, and reclusive. He prefers
painting Dartmoor's brooding landscapes to his beautiful young bride, and from
the first, their uneasy, loveless marriage totters on the brink of crisis. Only
when American