title: Gone Too Far (A View Park Novel)
author:  Angela Winters 
description: Putting the diss into dysfunctional, this fifth update in the Winters' View Park series (<i>A Price to Pay</i>, etc.) about the Chases, a black dynasty in California, is as soapy as an episode of <i>Dallas</i>. The Chase Beauty empire has kept the bank accounts of America's most powerful black family healthy while Steven and Janet's sons, Carter and Michael, continue to woo their estranged exes. Avery, Carter's ex-wife, has married Anthony Harper, who uses his disability (although he really can walk) to keep her from returning to Carter, who Avery still loves. Michael wants Kimberly back, although his family still doesn't know about her reckless hooker youth, but the sudden illness of their son, Evan, brings the family together, while youngest Chase sibling, Haley, married to Aussie bad boy Peter Hargrove, just continues to annoy. Luckily, Winter scores with Dr. Leigh Chase, the nicest Chase heir, who runs Hope Clinic for HIV/AIDS patients and whose involvement with black Republican Sen. Max Cody gives this sagging series a major facelift.<i> (June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: ALAN GLYNN
  
  **Winterland**
  
    
    
    
  
  For Eithne, Rory and Cian
  
  **Table of Contents**
  
  Title Page  
  Dedication  
  Prologue  
  Chapter One  
  Chapter Two  
  Chapter Three  
  Chapter Four  
  Chapter Five  
  Chapter Six  
  Chapter Seven  
  About the Author  
  By the Same Author  
  Copyright  
  
  **Prologue**
  
    
  
   _How has it come to this?_
  
   _Gina doesn’t know – but she looks across the warehouse floor_ _at the three
  men and decides she can’t take any more of it. She has_ _to leave. It’s just
  too much._
  
   _‘I’m … I’ll be outside,’ she says, though it’s barely audible._
  
   _She turns and walks over to the metal door. Her hand is_ _shaking as she
  opens it. She steps outside, into the cold night air._
  
   _With her back to the closed door, she takes a deep breath and_ _closes her
  eyes._
  
   _After a moment, she opens them again. It’s a fairly desolate_ _scene out
  here. In one direction the floodlit yard of this industrial_ _park leads to a
  graffiti-covered wall at the back of a housing_ _estate. In the othe