Fortune's Rocks [Mass Market Paperback] Shreve, Anita

It's 1899, and fifteen-year-old Olympia Biddeford is spending the summer at her family's beach house on the New Hampshire coast when she meets a man three decades her senior — a married physician and family friend. What begins as intellectual fascination spirals into an affair that will shatter everything: her reputation, her family, her future. Shreve writes this forbidden love story with restraint and heat in equal measure, never flinching from the power imbalance or the consequences. The prose has a period elegance that suits the setting, but the emotional territory is timeless — desire, ruin, and the question of what love costs when society says it shouldn't exist. Four years later, Olympia returns to Fortune's Rocks to reclaim what was taken from her. For readers who loved *The Awakening* or anyone drawn to lush historical fiction about women who refuse to disappear quietly.