Driven Women
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Complete, First published Oct 17, 2014
Scandalous? Maybe they are. Ambitious? Certainly. Fun? Absolutely. 
This book is not for the faint of heart: its heroines are true feminists, free-spirited, forward-thinking, modern women who aren’t afraid to go against social and moral conventions to get what they want. 

When a lion-headed logo starts finding its way in Xavière, Galatea and Lena’s lives, it marks the beginning of a journey through which the three friends will discover what the notion of accomplishment truly means to each of them. 

Xavière works in venture capital in Silicon Valley, but her passion is endurance horse riding -a passion she has more and more difficulty combining with her professional and family obligations. When she meets Ashish, a young and extremely successful African businessman, she starts seriously questioning those obligations. 

Galatea fights hard to climb to the highest level in the French nuclear industry. An unrepentant seductress exclusively attracted to men of power, she discovers that she can't count on any of them when a strategic deal with Korea, her big chance to finally shine, mysteriously fails. 

Lena lives in Stockholm and is in search of a man of high status, with whom to have a baby and lead a fancy life -but is it really what she wants? Adopted from Korea as a baby, her only birth souvenir is a medallion with a lion head, around which much speculation will revolve as a sequence of events suggests that this medallion is nothing trivial –and neither are her origins. 

Indeed, that Ashish's company logo is a lion head, might only be a coincidence. And that Galatea's deal went awry when she mentioned that same lion-headed logo, might also only be a coincidence. Then again, it might not be.
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