Three generations of fire and fame, these heroines were born to star, born to dazzle. Three lives burning with power and passion. Three women as fiery as priceless diamonds: 

          Senda, the most famous actress in Czarist Russia; Tamara, the Hollywood goddess; and Daliah, the most gorgeous and gifted of all…. From the aristocratic splendor of the turn of the century through the glitter and decadence of the 1930s to the passion and politics of the 1980s—three generations of daring, dauntless, and desirable women are caught in a whirlwind of ambition and betrayal.