In addition, she was very important to her husband, Bill's career, as Steel explains: .
Mary Stuart had been the perfect wife. for nearly twenty-two years, providing. the perfect home, the perfect children, looking beautiful, doing what was expected of her, entertaining for him, and keeping a home that not only landed them on the pages of Architectural Digest, but was a happy place to come home to. For years, she had organized charity events which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for important charities, sat on museum boards, and worked ceaselessly assisting the cause of injured, diseased, or seriously underprivileged children. Bill constantly working late at the office. He was one of the senior partners in an international law firm on Wall Street. He handled all of their most important cases relating to Germany and England. and the things Mary Stuart did socially had always done a great deal to enhance his reputation. (3).
Tanya lived the an extremely glamorous life; she had super-stardom as a successful singer and actress, as Steel explains:.
Tanya. had three platinum records, and five gold ones, and won every Grammy and musical award she could lay her hands on. her mom was living in a five-million dollar house in Houston and she had bought her sister and brother-in-law an estate near Armstrong. She herself had one of the prettiest houses in Bel Air, and a ten-million-dollar beach house in Malibu she never went to. She made two movies . and won an Academy Award for the second. At thirty-five, Tanya Thomas had anything and everything that most people thought she might have dreamed of. (15).
Female characters in Steel novels always struggle to balance their careers with motherhood. In Season of Passion, Kate becomes a best selling writer after her husband becomes permanently disabled. Her new love interest voices concern about her ability to have a career and be a good mother. The following conversation reveals that Kate's career is an issue for the couple.