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Widowed Ellen Ross, an urban professor, had no warning of whatawaited her and her three children when she married Garth Epstein,whose resume read like a fairy tale: handsome, charming, well-educatedand owner of one of oldest and largest ranches in East Texas. What itdidnt list was: narcissistic, arrogant and controlling, with an undertoneof darkness that only Jennifer, her precocious oldest, seemed toperceive. Garth uprooted the family and moved them to Lake Point,Texas, a place deeply steeped in old bloodline traditions and prejudicesagainst women, a piercing thorn in Jennifers liberated and extremelycompetitive side.