Book review: Rival Passions by Zoe Miller.

In the teeming market of romantic fiction, a clever, classy page-turner always acts like a breath of fresh air.

And they don't come with more pizazz than Rival Passions, the second glitzy novel from Irish author Zoe Miller who finds rich inspiration in the breathtaking Wicklow countryside for this delicious concoction of realism and romance, home life and high life, ambition and compromise.

There's all the stock ingredients here -- glamorous settings, handsome heroes, beautiful heroines, oodles of passion and a sprinkling of mystery -- but Miller works a kind of magic in the mixing process.

The result is a super family saga full of domestic drama, human …