Have been reading Fern Michaels books quartet Texas Rich, Texas Fury, Texas Heat and Texas Sunrise. I have found that I enjoy her creative writing and sometimes sense of humor. These are some of her older books, copyrighted 1985 for the first one. They are still wonderful to read. Texas Rich, starts the family off, the Coleman's, a fixed marriage, a meddling mother-in-law and a powerful father-in-law. Which is what the mother-in-law wants. It does read like a soap opera only with a little more truth to it. I can see rich and powerful people playing with the lives of their families and others. But, through it all can one woman out last them. She was the perfect daughter until she met him, innocent until she met him. He changed her whole life. Texas Heat is the 2nd generation of Colemans continues the saga with the same problems of teenage life.