The Women of Dallas

The Ewings of Dallas are back again in the second of Burt Hirschfeld's novels about the powerful and passionate Texas family whose lives have been popularized on the weekly television series. In THE WOMEN OF DALLAS, Miss Ellie Ewing faces the possibility of cancer, disfigurement, even death--but, worse than that, the possibility of the loss of her husband Jock's love. As she confides to her daughter-in-law Pam, the Ewing men like their women, as they like all their possessions, to be perfect. And if her fears come true, she will no longer be the perfect woman Jock courted, won from his rival and loved all these years. At Pam's urging, she tries to tell Jock her secret, but instead he tells her something that horrifies her so much she prepares for a critical, perhaps even fatal operation without telling her husband. The other women of Dallas have their own secrets. Sue Ellen, the unhappy wife of ambitious and hard-driving J.R. Ewing, can't reveal the true paternity of her baby son--or her growing love for Dusty Farlow, the cowboy who offers her more tenderness than her own husband and her former lover, Cliff Barnes, have ever shown her. Cliff's sister is Pam Ewing, and she, too, is forced to keep quiet about her knowledge of Sue Ellen and her relationship with Cliff. But when Baby John is kidnapped, Pam finds herself doubting the brother she loves; she knows the baby is Cliff's son, and she's torn between her brother and her husband, Bobby, her loyalty to her own family and to the family she married into, her feelings for the missing baby and for the baby she is afraid she may never be able to have. And young Lucy, terrified for her grandmother, Miss Ellie, and herself, is the last of the Ewing clan to rally around the stricken Miss Ellie in the final scene of this dramatic novelization of "Dallas."