The Money Master, Complete
Jean Jacques Barbille has built something real. As the owner of Manor Cartier, he stands atop his world: a miller turned merchant prince, his success as solid as the stone beneath his feet. But success has not tamed him. It has only made him hungry for more. When he leaves for France on a grand tour, he carries his insecurities and aspirations like hidden cargo. What he finds there, in the form of Carmen Dolores, a mysterious Spanish refugee with her own wounds and secrets, will undo everything he thought he knew about himself. Their meeting is chance. Their entanglement is fate. And the collision between his ambition and her mystery will test what he truly values: power, love, or the ghost of the man he might have become. Gilbert Parker, once nominated for the Nobel Prize, crafts a novel about money, yes, but more importantly about what money cannot buy. The price of ambition. The terrible freedom of self-destruction. This is French-Canadian literature's forgotten tragedy, as razor-sharp about class and desire as any novel written before or since.
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