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Fortunes Rocks

By Anita Shreve

# 1 in Fortune's Rocks

$8.00

Fortune’s Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve.

On a beach in New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a young woman is drawn into a rocky, disastrous passage to adulthood. Olympia Biddeford is the only child of a prominent Boston couple–a precocious and well-educated daughter, alive with ideas and flush with the first stirrings of maturity. Her summer at the family’s vacation home in Fortune’s Rocks is transformed by the arrival of a doctor, a friend of her father’s, whose new book about mill-town labourers has caused a sensation.

Olympia is captivated by his thinking, his stature, and his drive to do right–even as she is overwhelmed for the first time by irresistible sexual desire. She and the doctor–a married man, a father, and nearly three times her age–come together in an unthinkable, torturous, hopelessly passionate affair.

Throwing aside propriety and self-preservation, Olympia plunges forward with cataclysmic results that are the price of straying in an unforgiving era. Olympia is cast out of the world she knows, and Fortune’s Rocks is the story of her determination to reinvent her broken life–and claim the one thing she finds she cannot live without.

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