"It is good, ethically and artistically, to read and read again a book with such a lift." -- New York Times Kate Orme was in love -- until she learned her lover's terrible secret. But she married him anyway, out of a sense of obligation ...and she loved their son, Dick, with all her heart. And she worried for him, even after his father passed -- worried that he'd have to face the same moral crossroads that had destroyed his father...

Author Biography

Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. She was well acquainted with many of her era's other literary and public figures, including Theodore Roosevelt.