Rise of the Blue Phoenix

At forty, she had everything money could buy, except someone to share it with. Then she went to sleep a successful businesswoman and woke up in 1983 as Whitaker Scarlett: eighteen, breathtakingly beautiful, penniless, and branded the village temptress who stole her cousin's fiancé.

Her grandmother despises her, her father won't defend her, and her scheming cousin Rosalie is living the life that should have been hers. But this Scarlett has thirty years of business sense and no intention of dying quietly in the countryside.

With nothing but a basket of wild duck eggs, she drags her mother out of a miserable marriage, out-trades the city's market sellers, faces down gangsters and schemers, and sets her sights on the country's top university.

Then there is Kay, a fearless young officer from a powerful family, who decides she is the only woman he will ever marry. But Scarlett won't stand behind any man. If he wants her, he will have to stand beside her.

From a riverbank in a poor village to a skyscraper by the sea, this is the story of a woman who was given a second life and refused to waste a single day of it.