For three generations the Tate women had carved out empires, built fortunes, and left in their wake a trail of heartbroken lovers. Yet there was something bizarre about these three women - all called Mara. They are united by a strange, uncanny bond - a secret legacy whose full power will be visited upon the last of them. This Mara becomes mistress to men of enormous power and glittering fame. Blinding beautiful, scorchingly sensuous, she is the most tempestuous of the Tates.